Skip to main content
. 2011 Oct 12;366(1579):2833–2840. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0093

Table 1.

Annual global medical research expenditures.

the world US$200 billion
USA US$93 billion
R&D for developing country diseases US$3 billion
% of developing country R&D expenditure per disease (%)
HIV/AIDS 39
malaria 18
tuberculosis 15
protozoa, other than malaria 4.7
diarrhoeal diseases 4.5
helminths 2.3
rheumatic fever <0.3