A framework for evaluating the costs of malaria elimination interventions: an application to reactive case detection in Southern Province of Zambia, 2014

Table 5 Basic health facility catchment area results for RCD during 2014

Variable (n = 164)	Mean	Median	p25^a	p75^a
HFCA population (1000s) in 2014	6.1	4.9	3.0	7.8
Number of CHWs per HFCA	1.5	1.3	0.8	1.8
Active households visited per HFCA	38.9	17.5	8.1	45.3
Active number of individuals tested per HFCA	166.8	89.2	32.1	193.6
Active number of individuals treated per HFCA	32.3	4.3	0.9	17.1
Total cost per HFCA	1177	923	651	1417
Activities
Cost of training (training of trainers and CHWs) per HFCA	347	285	193	406
Cost of data review per HFCA	225	165	104	269
Cost for RCD service delivery (implementation) per HFCA, comprised of:
Cost of CHW bicycles per HFCA	54	44	30	63
Cost of data CHW cell phones per HFCA	10	8	5	12
Cost (salary) for environmental health technicians (EHTs supervise CHWs) per HFCA	68	50	31	81
Cost (imputed salary) for CHWs per HFCA	111	54	22	129
Cost (imputed salary) for data CHWS per HFCA	45	34	21	53
Cost of RDTs per HFCA	60	32	12	70
Cost of AL per HFCA	43	6	1	23
Cost of CHW supplies (gloves and sharp containers) per HFCA	30	16	6	35
Cost of other CHW supplies per HFCA	116	95	64	136
Cost of other data CHW supplies per HFCA	0.35	0.26	0.16	0.41
Cost for CHW airtime per HFCA	51	43	28	60
Cost for data CHW airtime per HFCA	15	11	7	17
Cost for EHT airtime per HFCA	3	2	2	4

In Table 5, all costs are reported in 2014 USD, the HFCA is the unit of analysis, and all variables reported per 1000 HFCA population
^ap25 and p75 are the 25th and 75th percentile of the distribution

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