Consider there are about 168 million AFAB people in the U.S.635 If we use the stat that 10 percent of them have endo, that means there are potentially 16.8 million endometriosis sufferers in the U.S. However, it seems only 7.6 million cases have been diagnosed,636 so let’s just use that number for the sake of this argument. At $20 million in NIH funding, that is $2.63 of funding per confirmed case for one of the most painful human conditions that exists.637 If the $26 million had actually materialized, it would have been $3.42 per sufferer.
