tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" Brief Communication: Economic Comparison of Opportunistic Infection Management With Antiretroviral Treatment in People Living With HIV/AIDS Presenting at an NGO Clinic in Bangalore, India"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Brief Communication: Economic Comparison of Opportunistic Infection Management With Antiretroviral Treatment in People Living With HIV/AIDS Presenting at an NGO Clinic in Bangalore, India | Journal of the International AIDS Society BioMed Central Research article Brief Communication Economic Comparison of Opportunistic Infection Management With Antiretroviral Treatment in People Living With HIV AIDS Presenting at an NGO Clinic in Bangalore India KR John 1 Nirmala Rajagopalan2 and Nirmala Madhuri3 Open Access Address frofessor and Health Economist Community Medicine Christian Medical College Vellore India fellowship in HIV Medicine HIV AIDS Programme Manager Freedom Foundation Hennur Cross Bangalore India and 3Project Coordinator Freedom Foundation Hennur Cross Bangalore India Corresponding author Published I November 2006 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2006 8 24 This article is available from http content 8 4 24 Abstract Context Highly active antiretroviral treatment HAART usage in India is escalating. With the government of India launching the free HAART rollout as part of the 3 by 5 initiative many people living with HIV AIDS PLHA have been able to gain access to HAART medications. Currently the national HAART centers are located in a few district hospitals in the high- and mediumprevalence states and have very stringent criteria for enrolling PLHA. Patients who do not fit these criteria or patients who are too ill to undergo the prolonged wait at the government hospitals avail themselves of nongovernment organization NGO services in order to take HAART medications. In addition the government program has not yet started providing second-line HAART protease inhibitors . Hence even with the free HAART rollout NGOs with the expertise to provide HAART continue to look for funding opportunities and other innovative ways of making HAART available to PLHA. Currently no study from Indian NGOs has compared the direct and indirect costs of solely managing opportunistic infections OIs vs HAART. Objective Compare direct medical costs DMC and nonmedical costs NMC with 2005 values accrued by the NGO and PLHA respectively for either .