| Literature DB >> 26139421 |
Jeeyon Janet Kim1, Cathy Maulsby2, Rose Zulliger1, Kriti Jain1, Vignetta Charles3, Maura Riordan3, Melissa Davey-Rothwell1, David R Holtgrave1.
Abstract
Positive Charge (PC) is a linkage to HIV care initiative implemented by AIDS United with sites in New York, Chicago, Louisiana, North Carolina, and the San Francisco/Bay Area. This study employed standard methods of cost and threshold analyses, as recommended by the US Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine, to calculate cost-saving and cost effective thresholds of the initiative. The overall societal cost of the linkage to care programs ranged from $48,490 to $370,525. The study found that PC's five unique evidence-based linkage to care programs have relatively low costs per client served and highly achievable cost-saving and cost-effectiveness thresholds. The findings from this study suggest that HIV linkage to care programs have the potential to be a highly productive use of public health resources.Entities:
Keywords: Cost-effective analysis; Economic evaluation; HIV prevention
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26139421 DOI: 10.1007/s10461-015-1124-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AIDS Behav ISSN: 1090-7165