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Despite Prevention Efforts, HIV Infections Reach 50,000 Every Year
Major Finding: An estimated 50,000 people are infected with HIV every year in the United States, despite successful efforts to prevent HIV...
In a separate calculation, which has yet to be published, but was part of an editorial supporting the medical home published in the AIDS Reader, Dr. Saag estimated that it costs the UAB clinic about $2,700 per patient per year to offer a medical home.
It is his argument that it would be more efficient – and result in better-quality care – to take a portion of the money going to reimburse medications and instead direct it to primary care and the medical home.
"There’s a lot of money wasted in this field now," said Dr. Saag. "We just need to realign where that money is going."