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Table 3 Costs for rapid diagnostic test intervention

From: Cost-effectiveness analysis of malaria rapid diagnostic test incentive schemes for informal private healthcare providers in Myanmar

Annual direct programme first year costs (non-recurrent in italics)

Costs for RDT intervention, 600 providers

No intervention

Arm 1

Arm 2

Arm 3

Interpersonal communicators

$0

$34,599

$34,599

$34,599

Jr Health Service Officers

$0

$17,568

$17,568

$17,568

Product promoters

$0

$31,374

$31,374

$62,748

Office personnel

$0

$79,186

$79,186

$79,186

Incentives for providers

$0

$17,784

$17,784

$17,784

Commodities

$95,614

$103,658

$104,087

$119,127

Materials for providers

$0

$19,656

$19,656

$19,656

Materials for product promoters

$0

$324

$324

$324

Field staff training

 

$6,951

$6,951

$6,951

Field staff transport: monthly office visits

$0

$30,834

$30,834

$53,028

Motorcycle taxi

$0

$39,202

$39,202

$59,402

PSI Overhead

$0

$5,329

$5,329

$5,329

Shipping logistics

$0

$1,271

$1,271

$1,271

Total, year 1

$95,614

$387,735

$388,163

$476,973

Non-recurrent, year 1

$0

$59,334

$59,334

$59,334

Recurrent annual

$95,614

$328,401

$328,829

$417,639

Commodity cost per unit

 

No intervention

Arm 1

Arm 2

Arm 3

RDT societal cost (donor + patient)

$1.16

$0.68

$0.80

$0.68

ACT

$1.65

$1.65

$1.65

$1.65

Quinine and chloroquine

$0.55

$0.55

$0.55

$0.55

‘No anti-malarial’ (70% antipyretics, 30% antibiotics)

$0.58

$0.58

$0.58

$0.58

Patient and provider time and travel costs

Costs for RDT intervention, 600 providers

No intervention

Arm 1

Arm 2

Arm 3

Patient and provider time costs

$0

$53,366

$53,366

$64,498

Provider travel costs to restock RDTs

$0

$79,344

$79,344

$79,344