The cost of providing hospital-based (early) antiretroviral treatment in Indonesia: what has changed in almost a decade?

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    • Subject Terms:
      HOSPITALS; HIV infections; OPPORTUNISTIC infections; CLINICAL pathology; HEALTH services accessibility; VIRAL load; MEDICAL care costs; MEDICAL care; ANTIRETROVIRAL agents; HIGHLY active antiretroviral therapy; MEDICAL care use; CD4 lymphocyte count; MEDICAL referrals; COST analysis; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; EARLY medical intervention
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      INDONESIA
    • Abstract:
      17% of all people living with HIV in Indonesia who are in need of antiretroviral treatment (ART) actually receive the treatment. The cost of ART based on three CD4 cell count groups (e.g., 0–200, 201–350, >350 cells/mm3) in a main referral hospital in West Java, Indonesia, in 2011–2016 was compared to the results from a decade earlier in the same setting. Costs were estimated including resources used for opportunistic infection treatment, laboratory tests, and antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. For each group, we divided the costs into several periods: pre-ART, and every 6 months up to 24 months after onset of treatment. Before ART, costs were dominated by laboratory tests (>80%); ARV drugs were the main cost after treatment onset (>92%). Average cost of treatment per year was US$600 across all groups. Moreover, the patient cost to access ART (n = 49 patients) did not exceed 10% of their household monthly expenditures (i.e., 4%). The unit cost of providing ART per patient/year is half the cost under the previous treatment initiation guidelines. A lower ARV drug cost, more patients in higher CD4 cell-count groups, and lower viral load test cost characterize the current cost profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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