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Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports by jcranmer on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:34PM (#22291835)
According to your link, we spent $1.9 billion in 1999 on AIDS research. You don't have a link for Alzheimer's today, but this link claims we're spending $2.5 billion in 2019 on Alzheimer's:

https://www.alz.org/get-involved-now/advocate/research-fundi...

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Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports by pmiller2 on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:51PM (#22292000)
$1.9 billion in 1999 dollars adjusted for inflation is $2.93 billion in today's dollars.
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Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports by melling on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:36PM (#22292408)
“ We have propelled the federal government to rise to this challenge, resulting in a more than six-fold increase in federal Alzheimer’s and dementia research funding since 2011 ”

Your article says we’ve had a 6x increase. So, we’re approaching 1999 levels not accounting for inflation?

I believe we’re at around $35 billion for AIDS research.

https://www.kff.org/hivaids/fact-sheet/u-s-federal-funding-f...

So AIDS is still 10x greater?

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Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports by jcranmer on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:46PM (#22292505)
Your site says $2.6 billion for AIDS research. Most of the $35 billion is for treatment, both local and in support for global treatment programs.

By comparison, we spend closer to $200 billion/year on Alzheimer's treatment. Managing patients who are in severe cognitive decline is not cheap.

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