title: [Lessons of the socioeconomic structure of a cohort of 50 drug addicts infected with HIV and followed up over a year].
abstract: Fifty drug addicts, users of intravenous heroin and infected by HIV, with an average age of 28 years, were followed for a period of one year. The purpose was to analyze, as precisely as possible, the medical and social cost of their illness as a function of the stage of the infection to which they belonged. The costs vary significantly according to the age and sex of the patients, and are higher in those patients with stage IV (confirmed clinical AIDS) than with stage II and stage III HIV infection. Although the population of drug addicts infected by HIV is likely to stabilize, the medical and social cost of caring for HIV-infected drug addicts is very heavy, and can be estimated at about 4 to 5 billion french francs by year.
authors: Hopital Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Marseille.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Pène
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Gallais
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Chaudet
authors: M N
authors: MN
authors: Clouet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004493:Education; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Enseignements d'ordre socio-économique à partir d'une cohorte de 50 toxicomanes infectés par le VIH et suivis pendant un an.