PMID- 22839738
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121130
LR  - 20240318
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 12
DP  - 2012 Jul 29
TI  - Net financial benefits of averting HIV infections among people who inject drugs 
      in Urumqi, Xinjiang, Peoples Republic of China (2005-2010).
PG  - 572
AB  - BACKGROUND: To quantify the contribution of locally implemented prevention 
      programmes in contributing to reductions in treatment and care costs by averting 
      HIV infections among those who inject drugs this study calculates net financial 
      benefit of providing harm reduction programmes using information from services 
      being implemented in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China ( between 
      2005 and 2010). METHODS: Information was collected to assess cost of providing 
      methadone treatment (MMT) and needle and syringe programmes (NSP). HIV incidence 
      was estimated among people who inject drugs (PWID). HIV infections averted were 
      calculated. Net benefit was assessed by estimating costs of providing prevention 
      programmes and comparing these to the costs of providing care. RESULTS: An 
      estimated 5678 (range 3982-7599) HIV infections were averted between 2005 and 
      2010 and the net financial benefit of providing harm reduction programmes 
      compared to treatment and care costs for HIV infections averted was USD 4.383 
      million during the same time period. CONCLUSION: These results demonstrate the 
      net and accumulating benefit of investing in harm reduction programmes for PWID 
      in Urumqi. The return on investment progressively increased during the time 
      period studied and it is clear that these cost savings will continue to accrue 
      with the continued implementation of HIV prevention interventions in the 
      community that include harm reduction programmes targeted at PWID.
FAU - Ni, Mingjian J
AU  - Ni MJ
AD  - Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional Centre for Disease Control HIV/AIDS, Urumqi, 
      Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Peoples' Republic of China. kimwheel@yahoo.com
FAU - Fu, Li Ping
AU  - Fu LP
FAU - Chen, Xue Ling
AU  - Chen XL
FAU - Hu, Xiao Yuan
AU  - Hu XY
FAU - Wheeler, Kim
AU  - Wheeler K
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20120729
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - China
MH  - Cost-Benefit Analysis
MH  - HIV Infections/economics/*prevention & control
MH  - *Harm Reduction
MH  - Humans
MH  - Program Evaluation
MH  - *Substance Abuse, Intravenous
PMC - PMC3448504
EDAT- 2012/07/31 06:00
MHDA- 2012/12/10 06:00
PMCR- 2012/07/29
CRDT- 2012/07/31 06:00
PHST- 2012/03/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/07/25 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/07/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/07/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/12/10 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2012/07/29 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 1471-2458-12-572 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/1471-2458-12-572 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2012 Jul 29;12:572. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-572.