SOURCE: 2010 Census. Notes: Cities shown are those included in the urbanized area names. Population and land area for these cities reflect municipal boundaries in place at the time of the 2010 census. City boundaries may extend beyond the urbanized area.
An American who tests positive for HIV today is expected to wrack up about $600,000. ATLANTA â An American diagnosed with the AIDS virus can expect to live for about 24 years on average, and the cost of health care over those two-plus decades is more than $600,000, new research indicates.
Total annual per patient cost for an individual with a CD4 cell count below 50 cells/mm 3 averaged $40,678. This compared to $16,614 for those with a CD4 cell count above 500 cells/mm 3. Antiretroviral therapy cost an average of $9360 per year for each patient with a CD4 cell count below 50 cells/mm 3.xisting estimates of the costs associated with HIV treatment and care in the US date from the early years of antiretroviral therapy. In 1998, it was calculated that the annual cost of treating a patient with HIV was $18,300.