Increases in Adult Life Expectancy in Rural South Africa: Valuing the Scale-Up of HIV Treatment-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Increases in Adult Life Expectancy in Rural South Africa: Valuing the Scale-Up of HIV Treatment

Published:2013-02-22 Issue:6122 Volume:339 Page:961-965
ISSN:0036-8075
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language:en
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Author:

Bor Jacob¹²,Herbst Abraham J.¹,Newell Marie-Louise¹³,Bärnighausen Till¹²

Affiliation:

1. Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Post Office Box 198, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal 3935, South Africa.

2. Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

3. Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK.

Abstract

Cost-Benefit of ART In the battle to control HIV, mass antiretroviral treatment (ART) costs $500 to $900 per person per year. Bor et al. (p. 961 ) calculated the impact of intensifying ART on the life expectancy of people living in rural KwaZulu Natal. The dates of death were collected from a population of about 100,000 people during 2000–2011: Four years before and 8 years after the scaling up of ART. Life expectancy of adults increased by more than 11 years after ART was expanded, and the economic value of the lifetimes gained were calculated to far exceed the cost of treatment. Tanser et al. (p. 966 ) followed nearly 17,000 HIV-uninfected individuals in KwaZulu-Natal over an 8-year period. Holding other HIV risk factors constant, individual HIV acquisition risk declined significantly with increasing ART coverage of HIV-infected people.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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