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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2016 Jun 24;49:97–108. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.06.001

Table 1.

Data for HIV prevention projects.

Intervention Total
cost (US$)		 Number of
infections
averted		 Incremental
cost-effectiveness
ratio
1 2 3
1. Peer group education – sex workers 39,575 2473 0.0625
2. Safe blood transfusion 50,000 595 0.0119
3. Peer group education – young people 423,500 799 0.00189
4. Mass media and social marketing of condoms 1,300,000 2434 0.00187
5. Peer group education – high-risk men 500,000 862 0.0017
6. Targeted AZT to pregnant women 300,000 319 0.0011
7. Voluntary counselling and testing 310,000 261 0.0008
8. Targeted advice for breast feeding 150,000 62 0.00041
9. Targeted treatment of STIs 560,000 204 0.00036