Costs and consequences of large-scale vector control for malaria

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Types of costs included in the analysis of the ITN and IRS programmes.

	ITN Programmes	IRS Programmes
Capital cost	Buildings	Buildings
	Vehicles	Vehicles
	ITNs (retail cost & subsidies)¹	Sprayers
	Other equipment	Other equipment
	Start-up costs²
Recurrent cost	Insecticide (when separable from nets)	Insecticide
	Personnel	Personnel
	Fuel/maintenance	Fuel/maintenance
	Management cost/training & meetings	Management cost/training & meetings
	Office/warehouse rental	Office/warehouse rental
	Supplies/overheads	Supplies/overheads
	Recurrent building costs	Recurrent building costs
	Advertising and promotion³	Basic evaluation and monitoring (excluding specific research costs)
	Basic evaluation and monitoring (excluding specific research costs)

¹Procurement costs in Eritrea and Togo, subsidies plus user payments in Senegal, Tanzania, and Malawi.
²Economic costs which arose before outputs of those programmes occurred; these costs apply in Tanzania, Senegal and Malawi; they accounted for fewer than 3% of total economic costs in all cases.
³Information, education and communication, health promotion, direct or indirect advertising and promotion subsidies or other similar activities.

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