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.
Care and antiretroviral therapy consisting of four drugs was calculated to cost between Â£22,775 and Â£48,000 per patient per year depending on an individualâs health. By 2013 the researchers project that the total population of HIV-positive people attending NHS services will reach 78,370 and that in 2013 HIV treatment and care services will cost between Â£720 million and Â£758 million. But this would increase to as much as Â£1,065 million when the cost of social and community care was included. âThe direct cost for treatment and care for PLWHIV [people living with HIV] has risen 4.6 fold between 1997 and 2006,â comment the investigators, with costs projected to increase â1.5 foldâ between 2007 and 2013.