Table 1. Total first year direct medical cost and its eleven cost components for treating new HIV infections (thousand dollars)

	Mean cost	Total first year cost for treating new infections*
	2006-2018	01-12/2016	01-12/2017	01-12/2018	01-10/2019	01-12/2020
Total cases	n=965	n=9,912	n=9,800	n=10,000	n=8,479	n=10,000
Direct medical cost	0.1846	1830.2	1809.6	1846.5	1565.6	1846.5
Drugs cost	0.1101	1091.5	1079.2	1101.2	933.7	1101.2
TDF regimen	0.0438	433.9	429.0	437.8	371.2	437.8
d4T regimen	0.0128	126.9	125.4	128.0	108.5	128.0
ZDV regimen	0.0247	244.5	241.7	246.6	209.1	246.6
Second-line regimen	0.0243	240.7	238.0	242.8	205.9	242.8
Other regimens	0.0046	45.6	45.1	46.0	39.0	46.0
Services & tests cost	0.0745	738.7	730.4	745.3	631.9	745.3
CD4 count test	0.0460	456.0	450.8	460.0	390.1	460.0
Blood count test	0.0047	46.3	45.8	46.7	39.6	46.7
AST test	0.0009	9.0	8.9	9.1	7.7	9.1
ALT test	0.0038	37.9	37.4	38.2	32.4	38.2
Creatinine test	0.0005	5.1	5.1	5.2	4.4	5.2
Services	0.0186	184.5	182.4	186.1	157.8	186.1

Total first year cost = mean cost x total number of cases