Table 4.
The unit costs of key interventions for the Ebola control
Services/interventions | Total spending (US$ million) | Quantity | Unit cost |
Rapid response team (per team per month) | – | – | US$66 182 |
Contact tracing and surveillance (per identified case) | 11.92 | 2687 | US$4435 |
POE/C (per POE/C per month) | 11.34 | 76 | US$18 293 |
Laboratory test (per lab test) | 14.97 | 244 193 | US$59.40 |
Laboratory test (per identified Ebola case) | 14.97 | 3481 | US$4166 |
Confirmed cases in treatment centre (per case) | 1.85 | 1264 | US$1464 |
Suspected cases in treatment centre (per case) | – | – | US$358.38 |
Confirmed cases in transit centre (per case) | 0.32 | 1476 | US$219.28 |
Suspected cases in transit centre (per case) | – | – | US$220.01 |
Vaccination (per vaccinated individual) | 18.95 | 157 067 | US$120.70 |
Psychosocial support (per beneficiary) | 30.00 | 171 423 | US$175.00 |
Prevention, coordination, community engagement, operation and monitoring and evaluation (per capita per month) | 427.1 | 6 300 365 | US$2.71 |
POE/C, point of entry/control.