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

Ram K. Shrestha, Hollie Clark, Stephanie L. Sansom, Binwei Song, H. Buckendahl, Cindy Bolden Calhoun, Angela B. Hutchinson, James D. Heffelfinger

Public Health Reports · 2008 · 69 citations · 16 references

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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.

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