America
- $12.1 Billion annual cost in America:Β “Future treatment for the 40,000 people infected with HIV in the United States every year will cost $12.1 billion annually, a new study showed.” (msnbc.msn.com/id/15528984/ns/health-aids/t/new-us-hiv-cases-cost-billion-year/)
- Don’t know they are infected:Β “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 250,000 people with HIV in the United States–a quarter of the total with the disease–do not know they are infected.” (msnbc.msn.com/id/15528984/ns/health-aids/t/new-us-hiv-cases-cost-billion-year/)
Canada
- $1.5 Billion Cost for 2001 in Canada:Β “June 2001, Halifax, Nova Scotia–HIV/AIDS cost Canadians more than $2 billion in 1999 in direct and indirect costs. Health care costs accounted for about $560 million; prevention, research and supports to AIDS victims for about $40 million; and lost economic production due to premature death and disability for nearly $1.5 billion.”Β (gpiatlantic.org/releases/pr_cost_aids.htm)
