AIDS Therapy

Up-front cost for treating HIV-infected patient in Africa is US$30 per visit

Published in Health and Medicine Week, August 2nd, 2004

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, have determined that the actual average cost for providing primary care to an HIV-infected patient is US$30 per visit.

"Health care providers and government policy makers can use the information to plan and prepare budgets for aid programs in South and sub-Saharan Africa, where new infections increasingly overwhelm local health services," said study coauthor Neil Martinson, MPH, research associate, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

While the costs associated with secondary...

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