National Institutes of Health funding

United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of research and treatment of ME/CFS has been historically low.

According to NIH, the budget in the United States for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) for previous years is as follows:
 * Fiscal Year 2020 - $15 million
 * Fiscal Year 2019 - $15 million
 * Fiscal Year 2018 - $14 million
 * Fiscal Year 2017 - $15 million
 * Fiscal Year 2016 - $8 million
 * Fiscal Year 2015 - $6 million
 * Fiscal Year 2014 - $5 million
 * Fiscal Year 2013 - $5 million
 * Fiscal Year 2012 - $5 million
 * Fiscal Year 2011 - $6 million
 * Fiscal Year 2010 - $6 million
 * Fiscal Year 2009 - $5 million
 * Fiscal Year 2008 - $4 million
 * Fiscal Year 2007 - $4 million
 * Fiscal Year 2006 - $5 million

In November 2016, NIH Director Francis Collins announced that NIH spending for research for CFS disease is intended to double to roughly $15 million in 2017, compared to the estimated $7.6 million allotted for research in 2016.

NIH Research Funding

 * Nov 27, 2020, Gender Disparity in the Funding of Diseases by the U.S. National Institutes of Health
 * 2020, Research update: The relation between ME/CFS disease burden and research funding in the USA
 * 2016, Estimating the disease burden of ME/CFS in the United States and its relation to research funding
 * Nov 2015, [https://twitter.com/brianvastag/status/667879507571806208|Science magazine Chart on ME/CFS spending vs other diseases
 * ME Research UK - ME/CFS funding report
 * Chart showing relative funding posted by Tom Kindlon
 * Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories by the NIH - $5-7 million annually
 * Rivka Solomon estimates that, based on disease prevalence and burden, NIH funding should be around $250 million
 * YouTube: Money and ME, Patient Analysis Video - An illustration of the amount of money invested in research into ME/CFS By MEAnalysis

Learn more

 * ME/CFS Funding - National Institutes of Health