Table 4.

Per visit and annual costs of antiretroviral therapy follow-up for different types of health workers at the Infectious Diseases Institute clinic, Kampala, Uganda from a ministry of health perspective

Health worker type	Cost per visit ($)	Number of visits per year			Annual payer cost of follow-up ($)
		PF	NF	PWF	PF	NF	PWF
Physician	1.18	12	2	2	14.16	2.36	2.36
Triage	1.12	12	12	4	13.44	13.44	4.48
Nurse	0.74	0	10	2	0	7.40	0.94
Regular PW	0.34	12	12	4	4.08	4.08	1.36
Refill PW	0.17	0	0	8	0	0	1.36
Total	--	--	--	--	31.68	27.28	10.5

PW--Pharmacy Worker, PF--Physician Intensive Follow-up, NF--Nurse Intensive Follow-up, PWF--PW-intensive follow-up