According to this news report,
An American diagnosed with the AIDS virus can expect to live for about 24 years on average, and the cost of health care over those two-plus decades is more than US$600,000, new research indicates.
Both life expectancy and the cost of care have risen from earlier estimates, mainly because of expensive and effective drug therapies, said Bruce Schackman, the study's lead author.
The research found that the average annual cost of care is about $25,200 - nearly 40 per cent higher than a commonly cited estimate from the late 1990s.
The new research also updates other studies from the 1990s, when life expectancy for HIV-infected people was closer to 10 years.
. . . The researchers drew most of their data from 18 medical practices across the United States that provide care for 14,000 patients. The researchers looked at the records of about 7,000 of those patients.
They used a computer simulation model to project HIV medical care costs, and concluded the average lifetime cost of HIV care is $618,000 per person.