Question

How much estimated lifetime medical care costs can be averted by getting an HIV test?

.

$10,000

$220,000

$5500

$367,000

Answer 1

Ans: Prevention includes both primary and secondary prevention. Primary prevention reduces the occurrence of the disease and prevent HIV infection among high risk, uninfected groups. And secondary prevention reduces the progression of the disease. It reduces HIV transmission by those who are infected. And also tertiary prevention reduces or limits the disability from the disease.

Investing in prevention: Cost of treatment annually
-a patient with advanced aids- 34,000
-a patient with HIV- 14,000
-people in US living with HIV is about 1.5 million-37 billion spent on treatment

CDC allocated about 900 million in 2011 for prevention programs. CDC estimates that for every HIV infection that is prevented, an estimated 355,000 is saved in lifetime HIV treatment