A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports

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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