Cost Of HIV/AIDS to Africa in 2000

• The average cost of treating a person suffering from HIV/AIDS in the developed world is US$10,000 per year.
  
  
• The average amount of dollars spent on health in Africa is less than US$10.00 per year per person.
  
  
• The combined GNP for Sub Saharan African countries is US$320 billion.
  
  
• US$253 billion – the approximate amount it would cost to treat the estimated 25 million or more HIV/AIDS sufferers at the end of 2000 in Africa for one year (at current costs).

  

  Source:  Figures are adapted or derived from a variety of sources, including the WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank, WHOSIS

• US$7 billion – the total amount spent by all countries in Sub Saharan Africa in one year on health (approximate).

• The total spent on HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) last year was $165 million from all sources

• Estimated amount needed to prevent HIV/AIDS - $ 2.5 billion

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Cost of Malaria and TB

• Africa's GDP would be up to $100 billion greater if malaria had been eliminated years ago.

• $1 billion spent on drugs in Africa could treat 70% of new TB cases and result in a reduction in mortality over the next 5 years by half (50%).

• Cost of preventing or treating HIV/AIDS, Malaria or TB -· between $0.05 (5 cents) and $10 per person.

• Estimated that $1 billion a year is required to fight Malaria in Sub Saharan Africa.

  Source:  Figures are adapted or derived from a variety of sources including the WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank, WHOSIS

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Source adapted from WHO estimates for 1997

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