Routine implementation costs of larviciding with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis against malaria vectors in a district in rural Burkina Faso

Table 2 Costs for LSM in US$ in the Nouna health district comprising 127 rural villages and the semi-urban district capital

	Implementation year		Following program year		Average annual costs over 3 years		Proportion of total costs (%)
	S1	S2	S1	S2	S1	S2	S1	S2
Recurrent costs (personnel)
Project manager Burkina Faso	9.800	9.800	9.800	9.800	9.800	9.800
LSM specialist	4.200	4.200	2.100	2.100	2.800	2.800
Entomologic technicians	4.800	4.800	4.800	4.800	4.800	4.800
GIS specialist		4.200				1.400
Larviciding personnel	28.000	22.500	28.000	22.500	28.000	22.500
Larviciding supervisors	7.750	7.750	7.750	7.750	7.750	7.750
Subtotal	54.550	53.250	52.450	46.950	53.150	49.050	35.9	44.9
Consumables
Larvicide	56.000	28.000	56.000	28.000	56.000	28.000
Air freight larvicide	14.500	7.250	14.500	7.250	14.500	7.250
Subtotal	70.500	35.250	70.500	35.250	70.500	35.250	47.6	32.2
Transport costs
In country travel and field work	5.700	6.900	5.700	5.700	5.700	5.700
Subtotal	5.700	6.900	5.700	5.700	5.700	5.700	3.8	5.2
Activities
Staff training	3.800	3.800	2.000	2.000	2.600	2.600
Community sensitization	3.200	3.200			1.067	1.067
Mapping of larval sources	1.800				600
Mapping for risk map creation		2.800				933
Subtotal	8.800	9.800	2.000	2.000	4.267	4.600	2.9	4.2
Capital costs
Knapsack sprayers	36.000	36.000			12.000	12.000
Air freight knapsack sprayers	7.700	7.700
GPS, computer, equipment	2.500	2.500			833	833
Satellite imagery		1.650				550
Protective clothes	5.300	3.975			1.767	1.325
Subtotal	51.500	51.825			14.600	14.708	9.9	13.5
Total	191.050	157.025	130.650	89.900	148.217	109.308
Overheads 10 %	19.105	15.703	13.065	8.990	14.822	10.931
Total program costs	210.155	172.728	143.715	98.890	163.038	120.239
Costs per person protected	1.35	1.11	0.92	0.63	1.05	0.77

Costs per person protected are based on a 2013 midyear population of 156.000 inhabitants. Calculations based on 2013 costs for material and personnel using a 2013–2015 average exchange rate of US$ 1 = € 0.82

ISSN: 1475-2875