Rethinking the economic costs of malaria at the household level: Evidence from applying a new analytical framework in rural Kenya

Table 1 Summary of the direct costs of malaria.

Country and Authors	Direct costs per capita per month (1999 US$)		Monthly total direct costs	Direct costs as % of income
	Prevention	Treatment
Sri Lanka [8]	-	1.91	1.91	2.0
Malawi [16]	0.05	0.41	0.46	2.0
Tanzania [42]	0.76	-	-	-
Zaire [47]	0.97	-	-	-
Cameroon [45]	1.29	2.05	3.34	-
Cameroon [41]	1.74	2.67	4.41	-
Cameroon [41]	2.10	3.88	5.98	-
Burkina Faso [44]	0.09	-	-	-
Burkina Faso [44]	0.93	1.18	2.11	-
Ghana [7]	-	0.65	0.65	-
Nigeria [11]	-	1.84	1.84	2.9

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