Cost-Effectiveness of Finding New HIV Diagnoses Using Rapid HIV Testing in Community-Based Organizations

200870 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Ram K. Shrestha · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hollie Clark · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Stephanie L. Sansom · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Binwei Song · National Center for HIV/AIDS Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention

H. Buckendahl · Kansas City CARE Clinic

Cindy Bolden Calhoun · Community Health Awareness Group

Angela B. Hutchinson

Abstract

The cost of providing a new HIV diagnosis was considerably higher in the outreach settings than in the clinic. The variation can be largely explained by differences in the number of undiagnosed infections among the people tested and by the costs of purchasing and operating a mobile van.

Topics & Keywords

HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Public Health Reports

Volume 123, Issue 3_suppl, pp. 94-100

DOI: 10.1177/00333549081230s312

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