Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Show me the $$$ ($3.1B vs. $6M)

How do you feel about how your tax money was spent last year?

NIH-Sponsored HIV/AIDS funding (2011) = $3,086,000,000
NIH-Sponsored CFS Research (2011) = $6,000,000
Source: http://report.nih.gov/rcdc/categories/

Perfectly healthly HIV+ people received $3.1B in research funding last year.

Sick, ailing, immunodeficient CFS/ME patients received $6M.

How couldn't you be infuriated?

In terms of the immune dysfunction and human suffering, just from what we know today, CFS is just as serious a public health problem as AIDS.

Please write your government representatives demanding funding parity for CFS with AIDS. U.S. representatives here:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...nators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/


My blog: www.cfsstraighttalk.blogspot.com

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