According to a new study by BC Centre, treating more HIV patients will check the spread of the virus and save almost $1 billion in health-care costs in British Columbia, over 30 years.

Health authorities and the BC Centre will run this program in collaboration. It aims to expand access to drugs among sex trade workers, injection drug users and men who have sex with men.

It is called highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, which is one of its kinds entailing economic benefits too. As per the study, if 75% of all eligible B. C. residents were treated with the drug treatment, an amount of US$900 million would be saved.

On Wednesday, World-renowned researcher Dr. Julio Montaner told that even earlier a plenty of research has directed towards financial benefits for HIV/AIDS patients who have received treatment and are able to work and pay taxes.

Dr. Philip Berger, a Toronto physician, who treats AIDS patients, stated that the study provides sound support to the benefit of increasing treatment, which is much more than just taking drugs. It can save thousands of lives and millions of dollars.

The B. C. Government announced in February that program is the basis of a $48-million pilot project, which is untreated for HIV in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Prince George, B. C.