The societal burden of HIV/AIDS in northern Italy: An analysis of costs and quality of life

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy 74%
• Italy 69%
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome 61%
• HIV 50%
• Quality of Life 47%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 45%
• HIV Infections 13%
• Value of Life 10%
• Cost of Illness 8%
• Opportunistic Infections 8%
• Ambulatory Care 7%
• Visual Analog Scale 6%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 6%
• Inpatients 5%
• Referral and Consultation 5%
• Cohort Studies 5%
• Prospective Studies 4%
• Therapeutics 1%

Social Sciences

• active therapy 100%
• AIDS 61%
• Italy 59%
• quality of life 58%
• costs 41%
• absence from work 10%
• inpatient care 9%
• diagnostic procedure 9%
• hospital admission 9%
• Group 8%
• drug use 5%
• productivity 5%
• utilization 5%
• labor 4%
• drug 4%
• regression 4%
• participation 3%