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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497.g001, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497.t001. drugs. Ingredient-based costing is used to cost interventions for which there is no data from economic study. In the United States, pharmaceutical companies have built a system which supports high costs for H.I.V. So logic says it must cost less than $75. For those without private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid, the Ryan White AIDS Drug Assistance Program steps in. It is similar to bottom-up costing but estimates resource use during the intervention based on assumptions, expert opinion, or other literature, rather than on a sample of service recipients, and applies costs taken from literature or other sources to reach a unit cost. therapy. Our review has a number of other limitations. per patient year) of a sample of service recipients during the intervention, and multiplying the resource use by the cost of each resource from the same period as the resources were used. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. For some ingredients assumptions regarding staff productivity are required to estimate the ingredient’s cost per output (for instance clients counselled per day by a counsellor). But we are seeing the first attempts to control the galloping cost of treating H.I.V. Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Ghana, one of the largest countries in West Africa in terms of population size, had an adult HIV prevalence of 1.6% in 2015 . Next year for the first time, Express Scripts, which is one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefits managers, with coverage of 25 million people, is kicking an H.I.V. Lastly, for those interventions for which neither literature on costs nor detailed ingredients nor expenditure data were available, most often because they were either so new that cost analyses had not yet been undertaken, we used expenditure data instead (denoted as “Expenditure records from implementing agencies” in Table 2). However, only 62% of papers reported some estimate of uncertainty, increasing the risk of potential reporting bias. See S3 Table for the detailed cost results by paper. We were able to find estimates of the cost of 55% of the services in the literature, almost all of which we further updated to represent the most recent South African input prices. Super-organized, savvy patient groups all over the world banded together to make H.I.V. That’s not only way below countries like Britain and France; it’s worse than Zimbabwe, Kenya and Malawi. Drugs Cost $75 in Africa, $39,000 in the U.S. But even we have limits to what we can do — because of spending on drugs.”. The principal summary measures that we collected were the mean or median cost estimate with ranges, cost year, currency, and where relevant, exchange rate between the reported currency and USD in the cost year. Thirty-two papers (76%) presented full cost, 8 papers (19%) incremental costs, one paper (2%) reported both [32], and one paper (2%) did not give any information [33]. The country is completing a transition from donor funding to financing antiretroviral treatment entirely from the national health budget. If Cimduo is interchangeable with Truvada, then so are these drugs. The majority of models were facility-based (n = 12) and located in Uganda (n = 7). drugs. (Prices quoted are from the government’s survey of what pharmacies pay. H.I.V. The cost of the three generic drugs in Symfi and Symfi Lo is $12,000. Alternatively, we suggest searching the unit cost study repository of the Global Health Cost Consortium (https://ghcosting.org/pages/data/ucsr/app/index) which, at the time of writing, contained data from four of the papers included in our review). There are several different types and they work in different ways. Steve Cohen’s time on this study was funded by the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC). In line with the impact ART has on the total cost of the HIV programme in South Africa, more than two thirds of the identified 42 papers detailed the cost of ART. in the United States have achieved that. Writing – review & editing, Affiliations In this method, the relationship between inputs and outputs (in this case, services rendered) is even harder to establish, as invoices might have not been paid on time and the charges paid could have been higher than the actual cost of inputs. While planned simplification of HIV service delivery promises to reduce expenditure, the drug cost of ART provision consumes the bulk of most HIV programme broad scope, and wide readership – a perfect fit for your research every time. South Africa is one of the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. Unit costs based on ingredients are denoted as “From ingredients” in Table 2; unit costs based on literature updated by more recent input prices are denoted as “From ingredients, based on Author (year)” in Table 2. In economic analyses of HIV interventions, South Africa is often used as a case in point, due to both the size of its HIV-positive population and the number of people in need of and receiving services as well as the availability of good data on the course of its HIV epidemic and the outcomes of interventions. The same is true for Mylan’s three-drug combos. Conceptualization, drugs help patients. In our full-text review we included papers containing primary cost data on at least one intervention with a mode of delivery of the intervention that was relevant to South Africa, and regardless of whether or not a comparator population or intervention had been included. One paper (2%) on the cost of NIMART purported to have used a societal perspective by summing costs from the healthcare provider and patient perspectives [12]. Next week: I’ll report on how some places have been able to keep H.I.V. Formal analysis, The United States spends about $20 billion a year on H.I.V. Tina Rosenberg won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism.” She is a former editorial writer for The Times and the author, most recently, of “Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World” and the World War II spy story e-book “D for Deception.”. What do we get from spending so much? Results of only 42 papers (5%) were included in the review. Firstly, as mentioned above, we used inflation adjustment for the results of the literature review, in order to be able to present mean and median cost in a single cost year to aid comparison (see S3 Table). care,” he said. Data curation, Pharmaceutical companies have built a system in which no one in a position to limit costs wants to do so. Patients with suppressed H.I.V. (The Mylan drugs are not technically generics, because they are new single-pill combinations of existing generic drugs, not exact copies of existing drugs.). Someone might say: Let’s prescribe both generics and we’ll save $18,000 off the cost of Truvada! Antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage in the country is suboptimal, with about 34% of all HIV-infected pe… The United States is infamous for its high cost of health care — and H.I.V. The Investment Case used a novel optimisation methodology to inform local programme planners and both local and international funders about the most cost effective mix of interventions against both HIV and TB in South Africa over the next twenty years, using as the main outcome measure cost per life-year gained. Top-down costing starts with the total expenditure on the intervention, and uses a metric (such as allocation factors based on patient volumes per service or similar) to assign total costs to individual services. Project administration, AIDS triple-combination therapy, which costs US$ 10 000 per patient per year in industrialized countries, can now be obtained from Indian generic drugs company, Cipla, for less than US$ 200 per year. We searched Pubmed for publications on the cost of each of the interventions, using a combination of MeSH and manually set search terms describing the intervention as well combinations of “economics”, “cost”, “cost analysis”, “costing”, “financial”, “budget” or “resource use”, at the level of title or abstract, as well as “South Africa” at the level of the text. Medical costs in South Africa have not increased with general inflation over the last 15 years. Formal analysis, The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. What does it cost to make each year’s supply of that $39,000 therapy? For the purposes of this paper we define a unit cost as the cost per unit of output delivered by an intervention or technical efficiency factor (summarised as “services” in the following). 55% of papers used a bottom-up approach to analysing resource use, 43% an ingredients or top-down approach, and one paper (2%) used both [34]. It will exclude Atripla because there’s now another drug that is essentially identical and costs 40 percent less. “But the first-line regimens recommended still favor the absolute best — and often most expensive — drugs available. The annual cost per patient within DART models (excluding drugs) ranged from $27 to $889 (2018 USD). No, Is the Subject Area "Drug prices" applicable to this article? The high cost of drugs contributes to this failure. Their pharmacies can buy drugs at Medicaid prices. Despite HIV interventions making up a large proportion of the health interventions in South Africa for which cost estimates are available [42], and despite a large number of reviews showing that South Africa is home to more cost estimates for HIV interventions than any other low- and middle-income country [43–46], our search yielded limited results. No, Is the Subject Area "Antiretroviral therapy" applicable to this article? Discover a faster, simpler path to publishing in a high-quality journal. SANAC and Strategic Development Consultants only provided financial support in the form of the author’s salary. Along with the inconvenience of multiple-pill regimens, this is a big reason generics aren’t much used. Table 19b. Data entries from one researcher were checked by another researcher working independently, and discrepancies resolved by reference to the original paper. This paper reviews available information on the costs for two types of services: a) Interventions: These were all biomedical or behavioural interventions for which available evidence showed a direct impact on HIV risk, transmission, morbidity and mortality; b) Technical efficiency (TE) factors: These were defined as activities that improve the technical efficiency of existing programmes, often by increasing their quality, uptake or coverage, but only affect a single intervention- in contrast to the enablers and synergies that have the potential to affect a number of interventions, possibly across different programme areas. More than 25 million people in the region are HIV positive, out of a total of 36 million worldwide, yet only a few thousand are being treated with antiretroviral drugs. Plenty of drugs carry outrageous prices: EpiPens, insulin, cancer treatments, even some antibiotics. The drugs used to treat HIV are called antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). For more information, we suggest to contact either the authors of the papers we reference or, if more information on the ingredients cost summarised in S4 Table is required, the corresponding author of this paper. It requires humans — to find people, win their trust, bring them into the health care system and help them deal with other issues (such as substance abuse) so they can handle getting tested. But insulating patients from costs has greatly reduced patient pressure for lower prices. No, PLOS is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, #C2354500, based in San Francisco, California, US, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497, https://ghcosting.org/pages/data/ucsr/app/index, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148546, http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=1854&PPN=P0141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135048. don’t know they have it. Mylan is the world’s biggest manufacturer of generic H.I.V. The analysis used a unit cost model that calculates the cost of each ingredient used in producing 1 output of an intervention and then aggregates the ingredient costs to arrive at a total unit cost per output of the intervention. Writing – review & editing, Roles Only 42 (5%) of 1,047 records included in our full-text review reported primary cost data on HIV interventions in South Africa, with 71% of included papers covering ART. More primary cost analyses of non-ART interventions are needed. Only in the absence of any such information did we use ingredient costing to establish the unit cost of a service, based on published data on the type and number of resources used in the intervention (such as staff, consumables, equipment, drugs and laboratory tests), and input costs (prices, salaries, etc) from a variety of sources. Of the 42 papers identified through the literature review (5% of all papers included in full-text review), 30 (71%) reported on the cost of antiretroviral treatment in different models of care, 4 (10%) reported on HIV counselling and testing (HCT), 3 (7%) each on medical male circumcision and inpatient care, and 1 each (2%) on palliative care and pre-ART care (cotrimoxazole preventive therapy only) (Table 2). South Africa has begun rolling out a state-of-the-art antiretroviral drug in a “game-changing” bid to drastically reduce the number of people living with HIV. Drugs Cost $75 in Africa, $39,000 in the U.S. has just made its debut in Africa. For those interventions costed based on ingredients (rather than on literature or expenditure data), the cost per ingredient was the same across all interventions for which we used this ingredient- eg, for every intervention that required a primary healthcare nurse’s time, a minute of that nurse’s time costs the same. drugs. However, in our review we were able to find publications on the costs of a number of other interventions such as HCT, MMC, palliative and inpatient care. 35% of services were costed based on ingredients; the remaining 10% of services were costed based on expenditure data. Copyright: © 2019 Meyer-Rath et al. We are grateful for the support of the members of the South African HIV Investment Case Steering Committee and Technical Task Team for their help in sourcing expenditure data and reviewing results. Finally, we collected which cost categories had been reported as having been included in the cost analysis (costs of antiretroviral and any other drugs; laboratory, radiology, staff, consumable, overhead, capital, and transportation costs). Yes Mr. Horn believes things are changing. For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click Technical efficiency in the context of the South African Investment Case refers to the maximisation of output (for example, HIV tests done) given a set level of inputs (for example, healthcare staff). medicines are a big part of that. Roles Sub-Saharan Africa is bound to become the biggest user of antiretroviral drugs in the world, so it has to start preparing to use them now, a conference of AIDS experts was told last week. Validation, Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post, via Getty Images, is kicking an H.I.V. PC: Personal communication; “From ingredients”: For more details regarding the quantity and prices of ingredients, please see S4 Table. Micro-costing is a method of cost estimation that enumerates and costs every input needed during a health intervention. He was the chief of staff to the first leader of the Global Fund and later chief executive of the Clinton Health Access Initiative. What’s new about Mylan’s Cimduo is that it combines two medicines available in generic form: tenofovir and lamivudine. To receive email alerts for Fixes columns, sign up here. Other papers detailed the costs of HCT, MMC, palliative and inpatient care; no papers were found on the costs of PrEP, social and behaviour change communication, and PMTCT. Our analysis yielded some insight into those interventions that need further cost analysis. At 40 percent less, the two Symfi combinations cost $19,200. Cutting the cost of South African antiretroviral therapy using newer, safer drugs Antiretrovirals are a significant cost driver for HIV programmes. The specific roles of this author is articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. Funding: The study was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (grant AID 674-A-12-00029) (G.M.-R.’s, C. v. R.’s, C. C.’s, R. L.’s and L. J.’s time) and UNAIDS (grant awarded to Gesine Meyer-Rath). As an example, a large number of economic evaluations of antiretroviral treatment (ART) options for low- and middle-income countries have used South Africa as a case study for decisions facing international donors supporting HIV programmes in sub-Saharan Africa more generally [1–7]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497.s001, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497.s002, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497.s003, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497.s004, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497.s005. here. It costs $39,000 a year. Insurers should care about price. We included papers published in any language between 01/01/2000 and 31/12/2016 (see S1 Table for the full list of search terms). We want to make sure everybody continues to have access to prescription drugs and services.”. But no class of medicines is more scandalously expensive than for H.I.V. Only 5% of the papers on HIV interventions that used the term “cost” or “economics” as well as “South Africa” in the text reported the results of a primary cost analysis. The results informed unit costs for 5 of 11 intervention categories included in the Investment Case, with the remainder costed based on ingredients (35%) and expenditure data (10%). Where no data was found in the literature, we constructed unit costs either based on available information regarding ingredients and relevant public-sector prices, or based on expenditure records. are healthy and noncontagious. For these reasons we would advise caution in applying straight-line inflation adjustments to the costs of health interventions in South Africa over a number of years. If patients have high out-of-pocket costs, such as co-pays and co-insurances, makers of brand-name H.I.V. Very few of these analyses however use cost inputs from South Africa, despite the fact that the South African ART programme has been subjected to more cost analyses than any other ART programme outside the United States [8–25]. medicine, Atripla, off its list of covered drugs. “That we are going to be able to scale up all over the world is amazing. S2 Table summarises the definition of each parameter collected from the included papers. Additional abstracted data included the year of publication and first author, the country or countries where cost data had been collected, the type of economic evaluation and its objective or objectives, whether the evaluation was part of a clinical trial, the target population and any population subgroups, a description of the intervention, intervention setting and level of care, the cost analysis method (economic vs. financial, and full vs. incremental cost), the cost data collection method and time period, whether costs were discounted and whether costs and any outcome indicators came from the same setting, whether a sensitivity analysis was done, and if so, of which parameters. In economic analyses of HIV interventions, South Africa is often used as a case in point, due to the availability of good epidemiological and programme data and the global relevance of its epidemic. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210497, Editor: Nicky McCreesh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UNITED KINGDOM, Received: August 10, 2018; Accepted: December 23, 2018; Published: February 26, 2019. Why now? care.”. This method was used for the cost of male medical circumcision and for the three social behaviour change communication campaigns included in the analysis. “We have a trade-off,” said Demetre Daskalakis, deputy commissioner for disease control in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. S2 Table summarises the definition of each parameter collected from the included papers. But what an irrational world it is! (They differ in one piece of their triple therapy, but the World Health Organization and the United States government consider those drugs to be interchangeable.). We established the unit cost for each intervention using a number of methods: First, we used data from papers identified in our review without further adjustment if the cost year was recent and the service described was represented implementation of the service under the most recent guidelines, for the target population in question and at the relevant level of care. A new first-line antiretroviral drug regimen scheduled to be introduced in public health facilities in South Africa in September has been given the thumbs up by SA scientists. The difference? According to the article, Cipla was offering to sell the AIDS cocktail for $350 a year per patient, or roughly $1 a day, as compared to Western prices of between $10,000 and $15,000 a … Of the 42 papers, 34 (81%) reported resource use from the perspective of the healthcare provider (with the exception of one paper [29], the provider was the public sector), and 6 papers (14%) reported resource use from the patient perspective (with 5 and 1 papers, respectively, reporting on the costs associated with accessing ART and VMMC). Micro-costing may be used in either top-down or bottom-up costing, depending on the level of detail and precision required. We then included into the Investment Case analysis those unit costs that were either, an update on such literature, or, if no literature was available, on data from recent expenditure analyses of relevant providers. UnitedHealthcare is giving patients incentives to choose Mylan’s two-drug combination of Cimduo instead of its pharmacological equivalent Truvada, which costs $19,700 a year. Ms. Rosenberg is a co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which supports rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. It’s ‘if this were my dad, what would I want him to have?’” she said. Drugmakers have designed a system in which parties that would otherwise campaign for cheaper drugs actually have an interest in high prices. The agreement‚ negotiated with international organisations and agencies‚ meant the fixed-dose combination treatment will cost about $75 (about R991) per person a year. Cost items included in papers that only reported the provider perspective were staff costs (in 81% of these papers), consumables (69%), ARVs (in 61% of papers), non-ARV drugs (69%), laboratory tests (58%), equipment (58%), radiology (36%), inpatient cost (19%), transport costs (17%). epidemic. Third, where no unit cost could be found in the literature, cost was established using ingredient costing based on published data on the type and number of resources used in the intervention, and input costs from government commodity tenders, public servant remuneration documents, retail advertisements, government programme costings and budgets from South Africa’s current and past portfolio of grants with the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). We identified 1,047 papers through the search and another 7 references either mentioned in these papers or suggested by experts (Table 1). regimen will have no co-pay or co-insurance costs, and can get $500 in gift cards to use for other health care expenses. Competing interests: SANAC provided support in the form of salary support for SC, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. (Mylan is doing this, too, with its new drugs.) All ingredient costs were based on the most recently available public-sector data, either from sources in the public domain (such as the Department for Public Service Administration’s salary scales for salaries, the Essential Drug and ARV tender price lists list for drug prices and the price lists of the National Health Laboratory Service) or from budgets from past and current South African grants with the GFATM. medication at home. Data Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files. Types of antiretroviral drug Antiretroviral therapy involves taking a combination of drugs each day. If patients develop complications or resistance to first line therapy drugs, they may need to proceed to second-line or third-line therapy to successfully limit the HIV infection. Our big problem in America is that too many people with H.I.V. 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