The cost of HIV prevention and treatment interventions in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorGeffen, Nathan
dc.contributor.authorNattrass, Nicoli
dc.contributor.authorRaubenheimer, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-19T15:50:19Z
dc.date.available2016-05-19T15:50:19Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.updated2016-05-19T15:48:02Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper estimates the costs of introducing several AIDS-related prevention and treatment programmes in South Africa.1 Our approach combines detailed information about the costs of implementing these interventions with demographic projections of their impact. Information about prices, wages and other cost components is drawn from a range of primary and secondary sources. Johnson and Dorrington’s (2002) modelling of the demographic impact of four AIDS-related health interventions is a central input into our costing exercise. We begin the paper with an overview of the key characteristics and results of their ASSA2000 ‘Interventions Model’.2 The paper then discusses the cost components of each of these interventions. We draw attention to the additional costs not considered in our primary analysis, and to the effect of antiretroviral medicine prices on the total cost of providing highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to those who need it. HAART is expensive, but the net costs to government are significantly lower than the direct costs of providing HAART. This is because people on HAART experience fewer opportunistic infections (OIs) – thereby saving the government the costs of treating those OIs. We estimate these ‘hospital costs averted’, provide a brief discussion of the savings associated with fewer orphans, and then conclude with a calculation of the cost of prevention and treatment programmes as a percentage of GNP.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationGeffen, N., Nattrass, N., & Raubenheimer, C. (2003). <i>The cost of HIV prevention and treatment interventions in South Africa</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19732en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationGeffen, Nathan, Nicoli Nattrass, and Chris Raubenheimer <i>The cost of HIV prevention and treatment interventions in South Africa.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19732en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGeffen, N., Nattrass, N., & Raubenheimer, C. (2003). The Cost of HIV Prevention and Treatment Intervention in South Africa. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn0-7992-2163-5en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Geffen, Nathan AU - Nattrass, Nicoli AU - Raubenheimer, Chris AB - This paper estimates the costs of introducing several AIDS-related prevention and treatment programmes in South Africa.1 Our approach combines detailed information about the costs of implementing these interventions with demographic projections of their impact. Information about prices, wages and other cost components is drawn from a range of primary and secondary sources. Johnson and Dorrington’s (2002) modelling of the demographic impact of four AIDS-related health interventions is a central input into our costing exercise. We begin the paper with an overview of the key characteristics and results of their ASSA2000 ‘Interventions Model’.2 The paper then discusses the cost components of each of these interventions. We draw attention to the additional costs not considered in our primary analysis, and to the effect of antiretroviral medicine prices on the total cost of providing highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to those who need it. HAART is expensive, but the net costs to government are significantly lower than the direct costs of providing HAART. This is because people on HAART experience fewer opportunistic infections (OIs) – thereby saving the government the costs of treating those OIs. We estimate these ‘hospital costs averted’, provide a brief discussion of the savings associated with fewer orphans, and then conclude with a calculation of the cost of prevention and treatment programmes as a percentage of GNP. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 SM - 0-7992-2163-5 T1 - The cost of HIV prevention and treatment interventions in South Africa TI - The cost of HIV prevention and treatment interventions in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19732 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/19732
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationGeffen N, Nattrass N, Raubenheimer C. The cost of HIV prevention and treatment interventions in South Africa. 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19732en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)*
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dc.sourceCentre for Social Science Research
dc.source.urihttp://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/
dc.subject.otherCost
dc.subject.otherHIV Prevention
dc.subject.otherSouth Africa
dc.titleThe cost of HIV prevention and treatment interventions in South Africaen_ZA
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