LOL. You made those numbers up out of the air!!

Each of those diseases needs more money and the available money needs
to be better spent.

        George M. Carter

First you pulled those numbers out of you a.s (hope you washed up afterwards
or your keyboard will need to be cleaned) secondly your comparing apples to
oranges.

If you want to make more reasonable comparisons you would compare the
spending on diseases that are communicable, are fatal in over 90% of
patients, and are treatable. None of the diseases you mentioned meet that
criteria.

Look at what was spent world wide to attempt to wipe out Polio, and Smallpox
or the amount that would be spent if Ebola ever broke out in a way that
threatened to spread beyond a single remote village into an urban area. HIV
is the deadliest communicable disease epidemic in the modern industrialized
world as to the mortality rates of those who become infected.

Yes during a bad flu year more people will die from the flu then died from
AIDS during that year but those deaths only represent a very small
percentage of the total number infected with the flu. Were as again AIDS has
a 90+% fatality rate and is thus a much more serious threat to the
population if allowed to spread widely into the population at large.

Gary Stein