The Johns Hopkins AIDS Service is the principal provider of medical care for HIV-infected
patients in Maryland, a state in which the majority of HIV-infected patients live in an urban …

Objective: Existing estimates of the national cost of treating all people with HIV disease use
data from a sample of people with HIV disease to extrapolate the cost of treating all people …

Background: Assessing the economic burden of HIV/AIDS can help to quantify the effect of
the epidemic on a population and assist policy makers in allocating public health resources …

Background: The delivery of HIV healthcare historically has been expensive. The most
recent national data regarding HIV healthcare costs were from 1996–1998. We provide …

We report treatment protocols for HIV+/AIDS patients by CD4+ counts (T-lymphocyte
cells/mm 3:≥ 500, 499-200, 199-50, and< 50) as a tool to provide better definition and to …

Context: Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is associated with decreased
opportunistic infections, hospitalization, and HIV-related health care costs over relatively …

Background: Lifetime costs of care and quality-of-life estimates for HIV-infected persons
depend on the disease stage at which these persons are diagnosed, enter care, and start …

This article reports on the findings of a study of medical and non-medical expenditures of
persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Los Angeles in 1987 and …

Background: Determining the direct cost of providing medical care to patients with HIV/AIDS
is important for both short-term and long-term decision-making and for appropriate resource …

Objectives: In the USA, Medicaid is the principal payer of the health care costs of patients
with HIV infection. We wished to determine how the costs to Medicaid of patients in Maryland …