Daily Oral HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States : Cost-saving at Generic Drug Price

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America..

BACKGROUND: Adherence and retention concerns raise questions about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in young men who have sex with men (YMSM).

METHODS: Using an adolescent-focused simulation model, we compared annual HIV screening alone with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine-based oral PrEP with every 3-month HIV screening in YMSM (aged 15-24) at increased risk of HIV. Data derived from published sources included: age-stratified HIV incidence/100 person-years (PY) on- or off-PrEP (0.6-10.1 or 0.4-6.4), PrEP retention at 6 years (28%), transmissions by HIV RNA level (0.0-78.4/100PY) and annual costs of antiretroviral therapy ($32 000-69 000), HIV care (G Ege Eskibozkurt-34 600), and PrEP program/generic drug ($900/360). Outcomes included transmissions (percent of cohort infected), quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), costs ($), and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios ($/QALY). We explored the sensitivity of findings to variation in HIV incidence and drug prices.

RESULTS: Compared with annual screening alone, PrEP would increase QALYs (9.58 to 9.67), reduce new infections (37% to 30%), and decrease costs (by $5000) over 10 years. PrEP would remain cost-saving for HIV incidence off-PrEP ≥5.1/100PY or annual PrEP price ≤$1200. Over a lifetime horizon, PrEP would be cost-saving for HIV incidence off-PrEP ≥1.0/100PY, across all retention assumptions examined. PrEP would not be cost-effective at HIV incidence ≤0.1/100PY, regardless of drug price, due to programmatic costs.

CONCLUSIONS: In US YMSM at increased risk of HIV, generic oral PrEP and every-3-month screening would be cost-saving compared with annual screening alone, even with high discontinuation and low adherence, over a range of HIV incidences.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:78

Enthalten in:

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 78(2024), 2 vom: 17. Feb., Seite 402-410

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Amick, Alyssa K [VerfasserIn]
Eskibozkurt, G Ege [VerfasserIn]
Hosek, Sybil G [VerfasserIn]
Flanagan, Clare F [VerfasserIn]
Landovitz, Raphael J [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Elena Y [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, Craig M [VerfasserIn]
Freedberg, Kenneth A [VerfasserIn]
Weinstein, Milton C [VerfasserIn]
Kazemian, Pooyan [VerfasserIn]
Paltiel, A David [VerfasserIn]
Ciaranello, Andrea L [VerfasserIn]
Neilan, Anne M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-HIV Agents
Cost-effectiveness
Drugs, Generic
HIV
Journal Article
Pre-exposure prophylaxis
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
YMSM
Youth

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Date Completed 19.02.2024

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/cid/ciad566

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363169067