Footnotes

(a) The AIDS deaths are estimated by the CDC of 14,016 for the 50 states is in Table 7, Page 17 http://fairfoundation.org/CDC_AIDS_death_estimates_2002-2006.pdf.  
The number of HIV/AIDS patients used to arrive at the figure in Column 4 is 950,000. It should be noted that we have contacted the Departments of Health for all fifty states and they report the number of HIV/AIDS deaths at 10,000 to 11,000. See that here.

     *The number of AIDS deaths reported by the preliminary National Vital Statistics Report is 13,658 with all of our country's death certificates tallied as provided by the Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although deaths from HIV/AIDS have plummeted 75-98 percent throughout the USA, the CDC had not changed it's estimates appreciably from the 17 to 18,000 range for five years. See that here. Our full Board of Directors wrote the CDC in June of 2007 and their new figures released in April of 2008 now show a 15% decline in overall death to the 14,016.

Note: 2006 Deaths in California in newly infected patients have dropped 98 percent from their 1992 high--see it here.

In addition to the amounts in the table above for AIDS research, another 11 Billion is budgeted for housing, care and cash assistance to AIDS patients, and 1 Billion for prevention. Separate from that, the US has committed to spending 15 Billion on global AIDS over five years. From 1981 to 2005 our country has spent 170 Billion on AIDS and in one more year of funding at 20 Billion+ per year, the total AIDS expenditures at 190 Billion will approach 1/5th of a Trillion dollars, or 200 Billion. See Kaiser Foundation statistics here

(b) The American Heart Association reports 79.4 million Americans have cardiovascular disease and that it kills 871,500 in 2004. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4478

(c)  Diabetes deaths at 74,817 at this CDC site http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/preliminarydeaths05_tables.pdf. An estimated 25.5 million patients at the CDC site http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/diabetes.htm.

(d)  Alzheimer's statistics, including 5.2 million sufferers now and 10 million baby boomers will develop this malady, from the Alzheimer's Association 2008 fact sheet at http://fairfoundation.org/alzheimers_facts2008.pdf.  

(e)  American Cancer Society for prostate disease  deaths
       of 27,050 at http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html and an estimated 1.9 million Americans with this disease. (see k below for breast cancer and all cancers)

(f) CDC's National Vital Statistics Report (Vol 53 Number 15 Prelim. for 2003) places Parkinson's disease deaths at 19,547 here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/preliminarydeaths05_tables.pdf. Parkinson's Disease affects 1.5 million in the USA from American Parkinson's Disease Association: http://www.apdaparkinson.org/user/AboutParkinson.asp.
    
(g)  CDC at http://consensus.nih.gov/2002/2002HepatitisC2002116html.htm for hepatitis C (HCV) estimated deaths of 12,000 and the number estimated to have HCV is arrived at by utilizing the CDC estimate of 1.8% of the population X the present population of 293 million Americans at http://www.census.gov/ = 5.3 million with HCV

(h)  From the CDC: 1.25 million chronically infected hepatitis B (HBV) patients and an estimated 5,000 deaths annually See here.

(i) CDC's National Vital Statistics Report places COPD deaths at 126,128 here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_15.pdf see Page 4.The CDC reports 12.2 million patients with COPD as of 2002 here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/copd.htm. 

(j)  From the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/surv&controlCaseCount07_detailed.htm for 2007 statistics on West Nile Virus leading to $$ per death and per patient figures.

(k) The 2007 statistics for breast cancer are an estimated 180,510 new cases and 40,910
 deaths. The 2007 estimates for all cancers is 1,444,920 cases and 559,650 deaths. Both
 are available by PDF or html.

The NIH 2007 Budget for all diseases may be viewed on this site at CLICK HERE.

Some have called for an across-the-board doubling of NIH funding for all diseases. This would amplify the present unfairness unless existing imbalances in funding are corrected.

It’s imperative for the Chief Executive Officers of the organizations controlling congressional interaction for The 16 to unite as one and support the need for proration. The American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the American Liver Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, etc., must come together and address this issue unified.  I plead with them to contact their millions of members and encourage them to join the FAIR Foundation.

 Their actions, combined with Americans afflicted with The 16 bringing educating Congress and the NIH with letters, phone calls and a march on Washington will effect a change in policy. If AIDS can get hundreds of thousands of supporters to march on Washington, The 16 ought to be able to get millions to inundate the city. There are 12 million people with diabetes, 62 million with heart and stroke illness and 6 million with hepatitis B and C. Add in the millions of others with the other 16 diseases and this march should be achievable.

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