When the Rubber Hits the Road: Paying for Expanded HIV Testing and Care

Doubling the rate of HIV testing among U.S. adults over the next 5 years would lead to an additional 46,000 new diagnoses but would cost an additional $2.7 billion.

In 2006, the CDC recommended expanding HIV testing in the U.S., but the recommendation was not accompanied by any increases in federal funding for testing or subsequent care. Now, researchers have used a computer simulation model to explore how expanded testing and treatment would affect U.S. government budgets over the next 5 years.

The researchers compared the current testing rate (an average of 1 test per adult every 10 years) with an expanded rate of 1 test per adult every 5 years. Their model used 2008 estimates for prevalence (1.1 million cases) and incidence (56,000 new infections per year) and assumed that 97% of newly diagnosed HIV-infected patients received their test results and that 80% were then linked to care. Drug costs were e…

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Keith Henry, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardViiV Advisory Board

Editorial BoardsJAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Keith Henry, MD

Disclosures

Consultant/Advisory BoardViiV Advisory Board

Editorial BoardsJAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

When the Rubber Hits the Road: Paying for Expanded HIV Testing and Care

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