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The purpose of this paper is to analyse economic aspects of care programmes for patients with HIV-AIDS. These programmes may extend over seven to ten years after the diagnosis of the patient’s infection and will consist of alternative combinations of health care, involving varying mixes of primary and hospital care, and support in the community by a range of carers. One of the main arguments in the paper is that existing economic analysis of care programmes in HIV-AIDS has been concerned mainly with health care, and that social care networks, housing problems, labour market issues, insurance regulations and other inputs into the caring process have been relatively ignored. Yet these issues may influence the health of HIV-AIDS infected people significantly and have profound implications for the costs of health care and the cost effectiveness of total care packages. To elucidate these issues the familiar framework of topics for analysis in any economic evaluation will be used (e.g. as in Drummond et al., 1987).
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Maynard, A. (1990). The Economic Evaluation of Care Programmes for Patients with HIV-AIDS. In: Schwefel, D., Leidl, R., Rovira, J., Drummond, M.F. (eds) Economic Aspects of AIDS and HIV Infection. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84089-0_29
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