How it worked
This initiative has saved an estimated £90 million in costs to the health system, because getting people into treatment early is much more effective – £200,000 of costs are avoided each time a person living with HIV is engaged into care.
Importantly, many of the people tested were from communities who wouldn’t have received HIV testing if not through this project, and the Emergency Departments and primary care HIV testing interventions were particularly strong in identifying Black African, Black Caribbean and Black Other women and girls living with HIV who wouldn’t have been tested elsewhere.