Table 2.

Financial cost of annual school deworming campaign among 973,073 school-aged children in Lao PDR.

Cost		details	USD	Total (USD)
Capital cost	Training	Cost of cascade training for teachers in all primary schools*	74 935
	Health education	Development and printing of material	32 237
Total capital cost				107 172
Capital cost per child				0.11
Recurrent costs 1 round (17 provinces, 973,073 children)	Drug procurement	1100 000 tablets of Mebendazole 500 mg	43 016
	Drug distribution	Distribution of the drug from central level to the 8 654 schools	3 326
	Media Campaign	Radio and television advertising	2 937
	Supervision and monitoring visits		12 000
	Recurrent cost 1 round			61 279
Recurrent costs 2 round (8 provinces, 316,228 children)	Drug procurement	363 662 tablets of Mebendazole 500 mg	14 221
	Drug distribution	Distribution of the drug from central level to the 3636 schools	1 397
	Supervision and monitoring visits		5 647
	Recurrent cost 2 round			21 264
Total recurrent cost per year				82 543
Recurrent cost per child treatment per year				0.06

^*Training activities have been conducted in parallel with the scaling up of the programme.