Publication Date:
2006-02-04
Description:
A strong, global commitment to expanded prevention programs targeted at sexual transmission and transmission among injecting drug users, started now, could avert 28 million new HIV infections between 2005 and 2015. This figure is more than half of the new infections that might otherwise occur during that period in 125 low- and middle-income countries. Although preventing these new infections would require investing about U.S.$122 billion over this period, it would reduce future needs for treatment and care. Our analysis suggests that it will cost about U.S.$3900 to prevent each new infection, but that this will produce a savings of U.S.$4700 in forgone treatment and care costs. Thus, greater spending on prevention now would not only prevent more than half the new infections that would occur from 2005 to 2015 but would actually produce a net financial saving as future costs for treatment and care are averted.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stover, John -- Bertozzi, Stefano -- Gutierrez, Juan-Pablo -- Walker, Neff -- Stanecki, Karen A -- Greener, Robert -- Gouws, Eleanor -- Hankins, Catherine -- Garnett, Geoff P -- Salomon, Joshua A -- Boerma, J Ties -- De Lay, Paul -- Ghys, Peter D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Mar 10;311(5766):1474-6. Epub 2006 Feb 2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Futures Group/Constella, Glastonbury, CT 06033, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16456039" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/economics/*prevention & control
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Adult
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Child
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Cost Savings
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Developing Countries/economics
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Female
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Global Health
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HIV Infections/economics/*prevention & control
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Health Care Costs
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Health Policy
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Humans
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*Income
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Male
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Pregnancy
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Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/economics/prevention & control
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Preventive Health Services/*economics
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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