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Title: Paediatric treatment costs and the HIV epidemic
Keywords: Children and Youth
Health
HIV/AIDS
Issue Date: May-1995
Publisher: Faculty of Medicine, Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM) University of Zimbabwe (UZ.)
Abstract: As the AIDS epidemic puts additional strains on the already overburdened health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa, it becomes more important to estimate the cost of the epidemic in terms of health personnel and drug treatments. A retrospective review of 250 randomly selected paediatric admissions to a referral hospital in Malawi was undertaken. Groupings of “pos- sible/probable AIDS” and “probably not AIDS” were used in a comparative analysis of treatment costs. Estimated costs of treatments were significantly lower than those calculated in a study from Zimbabwe using different methodology. Meningitis was the most expensive condition to treat and accounted for a greater percentage of overall cost than either acute respiratory infection, diarihoeal disease or measles.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10646/2458
Other Identifiers: Weikert, M., Nelson, E.A.S. and Phillips, J.A. (1995) Paediatric treatment costs and the HIV epidemic. The Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM) , vol. 41, no.5, (pp. 139-144). UZ, Avondale, Harare: Faculty of Medicine (UZ).
0008-9176
http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/7012
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