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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 26.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2016 Aug 26;353(6302):889–895. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf6288

Table 4.

Policy Comparisons

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
Additional
verified
users for
100 doses
subsidized
(Nb-Na)
Additional
takers for
100 doses
subsidized
(Tb-Ta)
Doses fully
subsidized
per
marginal
user col
(1)/ col (2)
Full-dose
equivalent
for
inframarginal
users (Table 1 col(3) ×
1/2)
Full-dose
equivalent
subsidy for
inframarginal
users, per
marginal user
col (4)/ col (2)
Total
additional
doses
provided
per new
user
col (3) +
col (5)
Cost per
addi-
tional
DALY
saved,
USD*
Cost
per
addi-
tional
life
saved,
USD*

Policy change
considered:
1. Cost-sharing to free
delivery
21.5 86.6 4.03 6.70 0.31 4.34 182 5,520
2. Cost-sharing to
vouchers
20.5 27.7 1.35 6.70 0.33 1.68 70 2,134
3. Vouchers to free
delivery
1.00 58.9 58.9 0 0 58.9 2,475 74,921

Notes: Calculations reflect material cost of water treatment solution only; differences in delivery costs are not included. What we call a dose is a yearly dose (12 bottles of 150mL). At the time of writing the exchange rate is Ksh 103 to USD 1, thus a yearly dose costs 12×20 / 103 = USD 2.33.

*

See Supplementary Materials for assumptions used in calculations of costs per DALY and cost per life saved.