AID's taking too much money?

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

The Associated Press: Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so

As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.

"The global HIV industry is too big and out of control. We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake, ... too many relatively well paid HIV staff in affected countries, and too many rock stars with AIDS support as a fashion accessory," he wrote in the British Medical Journal in May.

England argues that closing UNAIDS would free up its $200 million annual budget for other health problems such as pneumonia, which kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.

"By putting more money into AIDS, we are implicitly saying it's OK for more kids to die of pneumonia," England said.

We'll see how this plays out...

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

The Associated Press: Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so

BLASPHEMERS!!!!



I don't care if Pneumonia and Cancer kills 40 billion people a second, we need to stop AIDS NOW so that we can bring back random anonymous unprotected no-holes-barred sex with nary a consequence.




In my ever so humble opinion.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Toxick

BLASPHEMERS!!!!



I don't care if Pneumonia and Cancer kills 40 billion people a second, we need to stop AIDS NOW so that we can bring back random anonymous unprotected no-holes-barred sex with nary a consequence.




In my ever so humble opinion.

...I thought it was 'holds'...no...wait....never mind.

[MMDad]

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HIV killed 12,456 Americans in 2005 out of 2,447,910. Spending on HIV should be proportional, so it should be 0.5% of our national healthcare budget.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by MMDad

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HIV killed 12,456 Americans in 2005 out of 2,447,910. Spending on HIV should be proportional, so it should be 0.5% of our national healthcare budget.

...so what is 2.5 million? Total mortality that year or just disease?

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Originally Posted by Larry Gude

...so what is 2.5 million? Total mortality that year or just disease?

Total mortality from all causes.

HIV spending at NIH is 2.9 Billion out of their 29 Billion budget.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by MMDad

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Total mortality from all causes.

HIV spending at NIH is 2.9 Billion out of their 29 Billion budget.

...where does $29 bil come from? We spend about 16% of GDP, or about $2 trillion a year on health care.



EDIT: Oops. NIH. Got it.