© 2006 American Public Health Association DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.081141
Deborah A. Cohen and Shin-Yi Wu are with the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. Thomas A. Farley is with the Tulane University School of Public Health, New Orleans, La. Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Deborah A. Cohen, MD, MPH, RAND Corporation, 1776 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 (e-mail: dcohen@rand.org).
The report "Get Connected: An HIV Prevention Case Management Program for Men and Women Leaving California Prisons"1 provides important data for assessing the cost-effectiveness of HIV-prevention case management. The authors state that HIV-negative individuals released from prison who completed their 10-week assessments after receiving an average of 39 case management hours reported an average increase in consistent condom use or abstinence from 33% to 59% and fewer sexual partners.
We calculated the cost-effectiveness of this intervention with a Bernoulli formula that has been used in many evaluations of HIV-prevention cost-effectiveness.24 We assumed that the cost of case management was between This article has been cited by other articles:
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