article_snippet.sent: You can come into Britain from anywhere in the world and get diagnosed with HIV and get the retroviral drugs that cost up to £25,000 a year per patient.
article_snippet.sent: The cost of antiretroviral drugs for HIV patients per year has been put between £10,000 and £16,000 by the National Aids Trust.
article_snippet.sent: Aids charity Avert has estimated that the cost of treating someone with HIV in the UK is around £18,000 per year, although this varies depending on the type and number of drugs taken and the stage of HIV infection.
article_snippet.sent: Given the high cost of ARVs [antiretroviral drugs], for all overseas visitors we recommend that advance prescribing of ARVs is for a maximum of one month in the first instance.