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Article: Economic consequences for Medicaid of human immunodeficiency virus infection.
- Article from:
- Health Care Financing Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1990
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Economic consequences for Medicaid of human immunodeficiency virus infection
Introduction
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the body's immune system, causing progressive disability and death. Since the disease was first recognized in 1981, more than 139,000 cases of the most severe form of HIV infection, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), have been diagnosed in the United States and more than 85,000 people have died (Centers for Disease Control, July, 1990). (1) These numbers represent not only human tragedy but a significant new financial burden on a health care system in which rising expenditures are already a concern.
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