CDC’s Work Saves Lives and Money

For people living in the United States, CDC’s HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, Tuberculosis, and School Health Programs Save Lives and Save Money

HIV

• About 1.2 million people have HIV
• Nearly 40,000 new HIV infections each year
• $28 billion spent annually in direct medical costs
• More than 100,000 HIV cases were prevented from 2008-2017, saving $4.58 billion over the decade

Viral Hepatitis

• Nearly 2.4 million people are living with hepatitis C
• About 862,000 people are living with hepatitis B
• New hepatitis C virus infections reported to CDC quadrupled from 2009-2018
• Only one-third of people chronically infected with hepatitis B were aware of their infection in 2013-2016
• About $3.3 billion could be saved in health care costs by treating hepatitis C at all stages of disease

Sexually Transmitted Infections

• More than 20 million new STD cases occur each year
• 1 in 5 people had a sexually transmitted infection on any given day in 2018
• $16 billion spent annually in direct medical costs
• In the past 15 years, CDC-funded state and local STD programs prevented 5.6 million cases
• of gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia and 3,200 STD-attributable HIV infections, saving about $2.4 billion in lifetime medical costs

Tuberculosis

• Up to 13 million people are living with latent TB infection
• 8,916 TB cases were reported to CDC in 2019
• The cost of treating one person with extensively drug-resistant TB is $553,000
• S. TB control efforts have prevented up to 319,000 TB cases and averted up to $14.5 billion in costs to society from 1995-2014

Adolescent and School Health

• There were significant improvements in sexual risk behavior and high-risk substance use from 2009-2019
• Student reports of negative mental health and safety issues still continue to increase student
• CDC support only reaches about 8% (2 million) of the 26 million middle and high school students nationwide

For <$10 per student, the CDC school health program demonstrates improvements in important health outcomes, including sexual risk, su