Table 4. Discounted monetary benefits, net benefit (benefits minus program costs), and benefit as a percentage of ART program costs, from restored labor productivity, averted orphan care and end-of-life care combined, cumulative 2011–2020 (US$ billions), with average productivity of asymptomatic HIV infected persons valued at 50% of GNI per person of working age.
Productivity of untreated patient in need of ART (as percentage of asymptomatic HIV patient productivity) | Productivity of patient responding to treatment (as percentage of asymptomatic HIV patient productivity) | |||
90% | 75% | 60% | ||
20% | Benefit | $20.3 | $16.9 | $13.6 |
20% | Net Benefit | $6.1 | $2.7 | −$0.6 |
20% | Benefit/cost | 143% | 119% | 96% |
40% | Benefit | $18.2 | $14.9 | $11.5 |
40% | Net Benefit | $4.1 | $0.7 | −$2.6 |
40% | Benefit/cost | 129% | 105% | 81% |