Where can I find statistics regarding government dollars on research per persons with the disease?
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At the moment, the amount spent around the planet on health research does not reflect the damage a disease does. Such damage is not always lethal. Public-health researchers employ a figure known as a DALY (disability-adjusted life year) to measure the true impact of a disease. This figure combines the effects of premature death with those of disease-induced disability in survivors.
Malaria, for example, kills fewer people than tuberculosis, but inflicts more DALYs. And, of the diseases in the table, it is the one where research is most underfunded compared with the damage caused. Diabetes, a concern of the rich as well as the poor, gets more than 16 times as much money per DALY, and cardiovascular disease ten times as much. Evening out these egregious differences would be cash well spent.
Condition R&D funding
$/DALY
Cardiovascular 63.45
HIV 24.26
Malaria 6.20
TB 10.88
Diabetes 102.07
Source(s):
The fight against disease: How to spend it. Jun 29th 2006. From The Economist print edition
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