"In the Nation: Experts Put AIDS Cost at $15 Billion by '95"

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"In the Nation: Experts Put AIDS Cost at $15 Billion by '95"

Baltimore Sun (12/15/92), P. 8A

Abstract: The cost of treating HIV-positive Americans could increase about 48 percent, to $15.2 billion a year, by 1995, health experts told a Senate panel yesterday. Fred Hellinger, a financing specialist with the U.S. Public Health Service, said, "The widespread use of expensive drugs has contributed to the high costs of treating persons with HIV." Approximately a million Americans are infected with HIV and 250,000 have been diagnosed with AIDS. Among those AIDS patients, 160,000 have died. Hellinger said that the number of newly diagnosed AIDS patients could reach 97,000 by 1995.

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