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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2018 Jan 14;32(2):233–241. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001697

Table 2.

Unit costs for the APS intervention per couple tested (2014 USD)

Program scenario (Unit costs) Task shifting scenario (unit costs)*
HIV-negative HIV-positive HIV-negative HIV-positive
Personnel 38.54 42.83 17.01 19.14
Transportation 3.43 3.81 3.81 4.28
Equipment 0.31 0.35 0.35 0.39
Supplies 2.13 4.55 2.18 4.61
Buildings & overhead 2.02 2.24 2.24 2.52
Startup 1.04 1.16 0.67 0.76
Phones and data monitoring 0.78 0.86 0.73 0.82
TOTAL (per partner tested) 48.24 55.78 26.99 32.52
*

The task shifting scenario replaces health advisors with community health workers (CHWs), and has lower cost mobile phones. We assumed CHWs tested 25% fewer partners per day compared to health advisors.