Estimating the Impact and Cost of the WHO 2010 Recommendations for Antiretroviral Therapy

Table 1

Antiretroviral costs per patient per year for low- and middle-income countries.

Regimen	Low income countries	Middle income countries
d4T + 3TC + NVP	$89	$88
AZT + 3TC + NVP	$149	$226
AZT + EFV + 3TC	$220	$281
TDF + 3TC + EFV	$210	$268
TDF + FTC + EFV	$255	$325
TDF + FTC + NVP	$190	$243
TDF + 3TC + LPV/r	$590	$1070
AZT + 3TC + LPV/r	$585	$1150

Sources: WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF, 2009, Towards Universal Access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector; Clinton Foundation Antiretroviral Price list, August 2009, available at http://www.clintonfoundation.org/files/chaiarvpricelistaugust2009english.pdf, accessed 1 June 2010.