Ten-year health impact, economic impact and return on investment of the South African molecular diagnostics programme for HIV, tuberculosis and SARS-CoV-2
Brooke E Nichols, Alexandra de Nooy, Naseem Cassim, Lucia Hans, Manuel Pedro da Silva, Kamy Chetty, Kyra H Grantz, Alvin X Han, Andrew N Phillips, Lise Jamieson, Lesley E Scott, Wendy S Stevens · 2024
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Brooke Nichols and co-authors tot up ten years of gains from South Africa's gene-based testing program for HIV, tuberculosis, and COVID-19. Their 2024 study counts the tests actually run and the healthy years of life they saved. Such counting, the authors say, helps governments see what lab testing is truly worth.
Since the program began, its tests averted about 4.3 million years of healthy life lost. Those gains carry an estimated worth of over twenty-eight billion dollars. Each dollar spent returned about fourteen dollars of value on average. Early testing of infants for HIV paid back most of all. The authors rank the program beside childhood vaccination as a top-value health buy.
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| CREATOR | Brooke E Nichols, Alexandra de Nooy, Naseem Cassim, Lucia Hans, Manuel Pedro da Silva, Kamy Chetty, Kyra H Grantz, Alvin X Han, Andrew N Phillips, Lise Jamieson, Lesley E Scott, Wendy S Stevens |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |