[Stellar Dendrite]

Yet more reasons why I oppose government funding...look at the disproportionate funding (politics comes into play once again):

The CDC dedicates more money to AIDS/HIV than to any other disease.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading killer of men and women (See "Adult mortality, Profile of the Nation's Health" CDC fact book 2000-2001).

In 2000, 710,760 people died from a cardiovascular related disease, and 553,091 died from cancer, yet 14,270 died from AIDS.


Data from the CDC Budget Request Summary 2004

Disease Actual CDC Budget

Arthritis $13,808,000

Breast and Cervical Cancer $191,965,000



HIV/AIDS -research and domestic $787,421,000

HIV/AIDS - Global (CDC wide) $143,720,000

HIV/AIDS - (CDC wide) $931,141,000

Total HIV/AIDS $1,962,282,000

Diabetes $61,683,000

Hep C $21,930,000

Prostate Cancer $14,062,000

Skin Cancer $1,647,000

[mission9]

Can anybody get Frist to say something nice about Strom Thurmond, then we can throw him under the bus. I admit, I wanted to see Lott leave, not because of the Strom remark, but because of his accommodations to Daschle.

[foofoopowder]

Those numbers are amazing. Almost $2 billion for HIV/AIDS and only $14 million on prostate cancer! Instead of hearings on drugs used by baseball players, Congress should have public hearings about the root cause of AIDS: homosexual sodomy, with graphic descriptions of what that actually means for the viewing public on PBS. Rated XXX. Tell the public how many of their tax dollars are being spent for same.

A long list of diseases actually are self-inflicted (by smoking, alcohol, drugs, etc.), not just bad luck.