LOOKING FOR AIDS/INFECTIOUS DISEASE STATS

[Michael A Chambers]

Hello everyone,

Could someone please tell me how many people AIDs kills a year in the US 
and how many people bacterial or other infectious diseases kill a year.  
I am also 
wondering how much funding the research for the respective diseases get.

The reason I ask is because someone told me that other infectious 
diseases kill many more people/year than AIDS but that AIDS gets about 
10X more research funding.  If this is true, can anyone postulate a reason?

Thanks,
Mike