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What are the Financial Costs of STDs?(sexually transmitted diseases)

Testing Positive: Sexually Transmitted Disease and the Public Health Response

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Few comprehensive data exist on the costs associated with sexually transmitted infections. From the information that is available, however, it is clear that the economic burden imposed by these infections is extremely high, and that an increasing proportion of the costs is being borne by public sources of payment.

PID

In 1990, the direct and indirect costs of treatment of PID and PID-related ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women aged 15--44 totaled an estimated $4.2 billion. Direct medical expenses, primarily hospital charges and physician fees, accounted for about $2.7 billion of these costs: Three-quarters (about $2.1 billion) went to pay for ...

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