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To: goldworldnet who wrote (228912)	11/21/2007 5:33:56 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

U.S. Federal Funding for HIV/AIDS: The FY 2007 Budget Request February 2006 The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 federal budget request includes an estimated $22.8 billion for domestic and global HIV/AIDS activities.1 This represents an 8.3% increase ($1.7 billion) over FY 2006 funding for HIV/AIDS of $21.1 billion. kff.org * * *

To: goldworldnet who wrote (228912)	11/21/2007 6:37:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

3/4 of the NIH budget is for AIDS? Amazing. Way out of any rational balance.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (228912)	11/21/2007 11:04:21 PM
From: Condo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Someone correct me if I am reading this wrong. The NIH had a 2006 budget of $28.4 billion and $21 billion of it went to AIDS leaving 7.4 billion for everything else? I don't think that's right. In 2006 NIH funded $2.933B domestic HIV/AIDS research plus $350M international research. That's a total of $3.283B out of a $28.4B budget (11.55%), leaving $25.117B for everything else. These numbers are in Table 1 of this Kaiser Family Foundation HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet: kff.org