Table 5.

Summary of estimated annual costs of the dog surveillance program by evaluation scenario (2014 U.S. dollars), Pétion-Ville, Carrefour, and Croix-des-Bouquets, West Department, Haiti, 2014–2015

Animal rabies diagnostic facility	NBCM	HARSP
Animal rabies diagnostic facility	$5,184	$12,920
Capital costs	1,787	4,195
Operational costs	1,435	6,935
Personnel	1,962	1,790
Animal rabies surveillance program	$10,804	$24,823
Capital costs	44	1,572
Operational costs*	6,237	8,263
Personnel	4,488	14,988
Required trainings HARSP	$0	$1,788
Operational costs	0	301
Personnel	0	1,487
Total annual costs	$15,988	$39,531

HARSP = Haiti Animal Rabies Surveillance Program; NBCM = no bite case management. The full list of items considered for cost calculations of the surveillance program are shown in the Supplemental File 2, Appendix A. We used constant dollars (no inflation) and a discount rate of 3% for capital investments.³⁰

^*There were negligible differences in the operational costs of the HARSP program due to differences in the number of dogs that were euthanized in 2014 and 2015. HARSP euthanized 45 dogs in 2014 and 47 in 2015 (see Supplemental File 2, Appendix B). The number of dogs under observation varied substantially from 2014 (N = 453) to 2015 (N = 1,189), but dogs put in observation have no additional costs to the government.