Thread: I'm having difficulty finding information on the net

I wanted to make a thread, but can't seem to find the following information:

Government spending on AIDS research

Government spending on Cancer research

Total deaths attributed to AIDS related illness (or yearly estimate)

Total deaths attributed to Cancer related illness (or yearly estimate)

I suspect the information would be very interesting, but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone have search suggestions?

NIH website?

I'm assuming this in relation to that Jim Valvano speech you posted in the random thought thread?

Cancer Research Funding - National Cancer Institute


Federal Funding for AIDS Research (PDF File)

Originally Posted by TenGig

I'm assuming this in relation to that Jim Valvano speech you posted in the random thought thread?

Yeah, it got me thinking. I'm interested to know if his claims still hold water, if so, I'd find it sort of disturbing. Wouldn't you?

Originally Posted by Djinn

Cancer Research Funding - National Cancer Institute


Federal Funding for AIDS Research (PDF File)

Thanks, I'll look at this next week.

Originally Posted by Sparta

Yeah, it got me thinking. I'm interested to know if his claims still hold water, if so, I'd find it sort of disturbing. Wouldn't you?

Yes and no. We could eliminate AIDS for good. Same doesn't go for cancer, we'll always have cancer. If AIDS were quarantined and eradicated, we would never have to think about it again.

That could be the train of thought people are making policy with. Who knows.

Originally Posted by TenGig

Yes and no. We could eliminate AIDS for good. Same doesn't go for cancer, we'll always have cancer. If AIDS were quarantined and eradicated, we would never have to think about it again.

That could be the train of thought people are making policy with. Who knows.

Maybe I just don't know enough about cancer, but what makes you say we'll always have it?

Originally Posted by Sparta

Maybe I just don't know enough about cancer, but what makes you say we'll always have it?

I don't know much about it either, but I'm pretty sure the basics of it are that it's just mutated cells gone wild and doing it's own thing. countless things can cause it, like a gamma-ray from space hitting the genome and mutating the cell, nothing you can do to stop that from occurring (far fetched, so don't hold me to it).

Kinda old but gives a good idea where we were in 1989.

Reported AIDS cases now exceed 90,000, of which more than 50,000 have died, and the Federal Centers for Disease Control estimates that the disease will kill 35,000 this year. Of the $2.2 billion in Federal spending on AIDS in 1989, $1.3 billion will be for research and prevention, the study indicated.

By comparison, the report said, the Government will spend $1.5 billion on research and prevention of cancer, which will kill 500,000 people this year, and $1 billion for heart disease, which will kill 777,000 Americans. In addition, it said, Federal support for such major health problems as stroke, high blood pressure and Alzheimer's disease will also drop behind AIDS spending.

AIDS Outlay Nears That on Other Fatal Ailments - New York Times