In their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by
researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of
Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoire.
The studies, led by a team of
researchers from Drexel University and the Philadelphia Department of
Public Health (PDPH), are the first to
describe the HIV care continuum postpartum and the first to use population - based data to evaluate viral suppression rates of HIV - infected pregnant women at delivery.