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. 2018 Oct 17;96(12):834–842. doi: 10.2471/BLT.18.211904

Table 4. Share of financial and economic costs by activity in the Zimbabwe human papillomavirus vaccination project, 2014–2015.

Activity US$ (%)
Financial cost Economic cost Net economic cost (economic–financial)
Microplanning 2 619 (1.1) 50 306 (9.6) 47 687 (16.3)
Vaccine 162 (0.1) 58 704 (11.3) 58 542 (20.0)
Training 53 204 (23.2) 69 662 (13.4) 16 458 (5.6)
Social mobilization, and information materials 55 170 (24.1) 67 568 (12.9) 12 398 (4.2)
Service delivery 40 053 (17.5) 113 444 (21.7) 73 391 (25.1)
Supervision, monitoring and evaluation 35 166 (15.3) 100 611 (19.3) 65 445 (22.4)
Othera 42 770 (18.7) 61 651 (11.8) 18 881 (6.4)
Cold-chain supplementation NA NA NA
Total 229 144 (100.0) 521 946 (100.0) 292 802 (100.0)

HPV: human papillomavirus; NA: not applicable; US$: United States dollars.

a Other activity includes items relevant to introduction and recurrent cost categories that did not fit into the specific activity categories including launch of vaccination (national and district), review of monitoring tools, stakeholders meeting, report-writing meeting, HPV strategic advisory group meetings, service of nongovernmental organization vehicles, office communications and networking meeting.

Note: We collected costs in current prices from 2014, 2015 and 2016, adjusted for inflation to 2016 US$ using the Zimbabwe consumer price index.20