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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