[Whine, whine, whine… These greedy SOBs think it’s all about money. When will they wake up and smell the sweet after-aroma of indiscriminate sex? So what if you get AIDS – everyone dies; you might as well enjoy your life to the hilt until then. And so what if it costs millions of dollars to have AIDS? You don’t have to pay – the government pays for it, which means every taxpayer in Canada chips in for your medical bills. Just do it!]
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November 24, 2011, Ottawa, ON. The Canadian AIDS Society has released a report today that indicates that the economic impact of 3,070 new HIV infections in 2009 has a lifetime cost of $4,031,500,000, approximately 22% higher than previously estimated.
November 24th marks the beginning of Canadian HIV/AIDS Awareness Week and the release of this report – The Economic Cost of HIV/AIDS in Canada, written by JoAnn Kingston-Riechers, PhD, from the Institute of Health Economics and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Alberta – should serve as a sobering reminder of the impact of approximately 3,070 new HIV infections in Canada each year. The report focusses on the costs of treatment and the costs associated with loss of productivity for lost work hours throughout the lifetime of those recently infected individuals (as of 2009).