The costs of introducing artemisinin-based combination therapy: evidence from district-wide implementation in rural Tanzania

Table 4 Summary of costs of three years nationwide implementation of ACTs based on different cost scenarios (2003 USD)

	Scaled up by:
	Number of districts		Population		Number of malaria outpatient diagnoses		Variety of bases (see text)
*Activities:*	*Scenario I*	%	*Scenario II*	%	*Scenario III*	%	*Scenario IV*	%
Project team	82,818	0.10	82,818	0.07	82,818	0.19	82,818	0.17
Office Equipments	31,415	0.04	31,415	0.03	31,415	0.07	31,415	0.07
IEC development & production	35,666	0.04	35,666	0.03	35,666	0.08	35,666	0.07
Training	2,603,551	3.18	3,866,486	3.18	1,365,999	3.17	1,721,766	3.57
Drug purchase	63,067,875	76.92	93,660,959	76.97	33,089,679	76.79	33,089,679	68.55
Drug distribution costs	8,829,503	10.77	13,112,534	10.78	4,632,555	10.75	4,632,555	9.60
Communication & publicity	5,025,735	6.13	7,463,627	6.13	2,636,841	6.12	7,463,627	15.46
Other supplies	2,314,162	2.82	3,436,720	2.82	1,214,166	2.82	1,214,166	2.52
Total (USD)	81,990,724	100.	121,690,225	100.	43,089,138	100.	48,271,692	100
*Total (TZS)*	87,320,120,918		*129,600,089,890*		45,889,932,230		51,409,351,760
*Per capita cost (USD)*	*2.19*		*3.25*		*1.15*		*1.29*

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