Table 1. Mean and median total costs, drug costs and health facility remoteness scores for 21 contracts for the Basic Package of Health Services in Afghanistan, April 2006–March 2007.

	Mean	Standard deviation	Median	Range
Annual total costa	975 710	469 553	921 147	150 140–2 150 071
Annual cost per visita	3.27	1.23	2.99	1.48–5.36
Annual drug cost per visita,b	0.3	0.096	0.28	0.14–0.54
Annual cost per capitaa	3.78	1.89	3.19	1.60–10.55
Annual drug cost per capitaa	0.65	0.33	0.57	0.21–1.66
Contract weighted security score (1–4)c	1.62	0.82	1.23	1.0–3.6
Contract weighted remoteness score (1–5)d	1.7	0.97	1.49	1.0–5.0

^a Costs in US dollars.
^b Drug costs include pharmaceuticals and contraceptives.
^c 1 represents the most secure district and 4, the least secure.
^d 1 represents the least remote district and 5, the most remote.