Cost Savings Threshold Analysis of a Capacity-Building Program for HIV Prevention Organizations

Autor/inn/en	Dauner, Kim Nichols; Oglesby, Willie H.; Richter, Donna L.; LaRose, Christopher M.; Holtgrave, David R.
Titel	Cost Savings Threshold Analysis of a Capacity-Building Program for HIV Prevention Organizations
Quelle	In: AIDS Education and Prevention, 20 (2008) 3, S.265-274 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0899-9546
DOI	10.1521/aeap.2008.20.3.265
Schlagwörter	Prevention; Program Effectiveness; Program Costs; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Cost Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken
Abstract	Although the incidence of HIV each year remains steady, prevention funding is increasingly competitive. Programs need to justify costs in terms of evaluation outcomes, including economic ones. Threshold analyses set performance standards to determine program effectiveness relative to that threshold. This method was used to evaluate the potential cost savings of a national capacity-building program for HIV prevention organizations. Program costs were compared with the lifetime treatment costs of HIV, yielding an estimate of the HIV infections that would have to be prevented for the program to be cost saving. The 136 persons who completed the capacity-building program between 2000 and 2003 would have to avert 41 cases of HIV for the program to be considered cost saving. These figures represent less than one tenth of 1% of the 40,000 new HIV infections that occur in the United States annually and suggest a reasonable performance standard. These data underscore the resources needed to prevent HIV. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10