The costs and effects of a nationwide insecticide-treated net programme: the case of Malawi

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Financial and economic costs of the programme from 1999–2003 (1999 prices).

	Total financial cost (US $)	Total economic cost (US $)
Brand creation / market research	146,801	107,085
Capital costs
Vehicles	157,552	50,228
Equipment & furniture	15,468	15,468
ITNs	4,478,365	2,147,400
Subtotal	4,651,385	2,213,096
Recurrent costs
Insecticide	191,555	191,555
Staff	357,204	357,204
Fuel/maintenance	339,346	339,346
Office /warehouse rental	45,672	45,672
Advertising & Promotion	272,646	272,646
Supplies/overheads	351,682	351,682
Subtotal	1,558,104	1,558,104
Total cost	6,356,290	3, 878,287
ITNS distributed		1,471,941
Retreatments distributed		287,079
*Treated net years*		*879,510*
Cost per net distributed		2.63
Cost per treated net year		4.41

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