The cost of antiretroviral drugs for HIV can be expensive. You may be able to save money by using generic or name brand drugs, using prescription insurance, or participating in an assistance ...

A person with HIV infection costs the U.S. health care system up to seven times more in lifetime medical costs than a person without HIV infection: lifetime medical costs of $983,897 compared with ...

Cuts to HIV programming are affecting local prevention programs across the United States, but the potential impacts on public health and healthcare costs are especially high in the South, which ...

The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to ...

ABSTRACT. The HIV epidemic remains a critical public health priority in the United States. The Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative seeks to reduce HIV diagnoses by 75% by 2025 and by 90% by 2030.

While cases averted provide cost savings, approximately 31,800 new HIV transmissions took place in the U.S. in 2022, leading to lifetime treatment costs of $15.9 billion just for those new cases.

As a result, stage 3 HIV-related deaths in the United States reduced by 47% between 1996 and 1997. The most common regimens today consist of two NRTIs and either an INSTI, an NNRTI, or a PI ...

The total money the United States gives to global public health programs ­is a tiny droplet in the total U.S. budget, says Lawrence Gostin, a public health policy expert at Georgetown Law in ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a highly effective new HIV-prevention medication, Gilead Sciences reported Wednesday. In clinical trials, the drug nearly eliminated HIV’s spread among ...

Health insurers, at least in the near term, might decline to cover the shots in favor of other forms of PrEP, including the cheaper generic version of Truvada pills, which cost as little as $30 ...