US Medical Research Over Time

I am saving this as a record for myself.  No one believes me when I tell them that AIDS research zoomed under the Reagan Administration.  That's not the narrative, you see.  AIDS was a gay, male,  disease then and Reagan hated the gays and was criminally stingy about signing funding bills to study an ailment that might yield help for said gay men.  Historically, funding doubled every year early on, almost as soon as epidemic came to light.