Table 5.

Costs and cost-effectiveness ratios

	Clinical	Microscopy	RDT
a. Visits	6520	10460	6685
Diagnosis Costs
b. Cost of Diagnosis (prior treatment)	17,864	86,103	31,508
c. Cost/patient diagnosed (b/a)	2.7	8.2	4.7
Treatment Costs
d. Treatment costs (All treated as observed in study*)	9,422	12,708	7,918
e. Treatment costs (If only positive treated**)	9,429	5,590	3,226
Total Costs
f. Total cost (b+d)*	27,286	98,811	39,426
g. Total cost (b +e)**	27,293	91,693	34,734
h. Cost/patient diagnosed and treated (f/a)*	4.2	9.4	5.9
i. Cost/patient diagnosed and treated (g/a)**	4.2	8.8	5.2
Total Effectiveness
j. Number of cases correctly diagnosed	1598	8303	6082
k. Proportion of cases correctly diagnosed (j/a)	0.25	0.79	0.91
Average Cost Effectiveness Ratios (ACER)
l. Total cost/cases correctly diagnosed (f/j)*	17.1	11.9	6.5
m. Total cost/cases correctly diagnosed (g/j)**	17.1	11.0	5.7