TABLE 1—

US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Funding by Disease

Disease	Prevalence, Millions	2014 Budget,a $ Million	% of 2014 NIH Budget	NIH Spending per Patient, $
HIV/AIDS	1.2b	3677	12	3064
Cancer	14.0c	7957	27	568
Heart disease	27.0d	1645	5	61
Kidney disease	20.0e	585	2	29

^aAccording to NIH at http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx.

^bAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html.

^cAccording to the American Cancer Society at http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/cancer-prevalence.

^dAccording to CDC at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/heart-disease.htm.

^eAccording to CDC at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/kidney_factsheet.pdf.