HIV Treatment as Prevention: Issues in Economic Evaluation
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...To sustain an ongoing ART scale-up, and the potential widespread implementation of TasP in the future, expanded financial and public health resources will be required.(7,8) However, the most biologically effective and financially efficient way...
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...possibility that our analysis confirms TasP to be a game changer, because TasP is likely to require additional program components that are not part of current ART programs, such as intensified HIV testing campaigns (11)....
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...Compounding such uncertainties is the fact that we do not yet have reliable estimates of the resources needed for implementing TasP, nor of its population-level benefits (11)....
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...TasP on morbidity and quality of life, and on economic and social outcomes, in South Africa are currently largely unknown, but in the longer run may be similar to those of ART (11)....
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..., frequent testing and retesting for HIV and ensuring high ART uptake among HIV-infected people who are not yet suffering significant symptoms (11)....
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...A few mathematical modeling studies have predicted the cost-effectiveness of TasP, using cost estimates derived from currently existing ART programs [4–7]....
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...Of course, the specific components required for successful TasP will depend on the particular TasP intervention strategy—universal population-wide HIV testing and treatment will use different approaches, and incur different costs, than TasP strategies targeted at people at high risk of HIV transmission, such as HIV-infected individuals in HIV-discordant couples [2,13,20]....
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