Table 4.

Scale‐up scenarios for 10 nutrition‐specific interventions in four African countries (US dollars)

	DRC (2015)		Mali (2015)		Nigeria (2014)		Togo (2015)
Scale‐up scenario	Total in millions	Cost per DALY averted	Total in millions	Cost per DALY averted	Total in millions	Cost per DALY averted	Total in millions	Cost per DALY averted
Full scale‐up of all 10 interventions nationwide	371	143	64	178	837	141	13	127
Full scale‐up in highest burden regions	135	173	44	212	507	257	n/a	n/a
High‐impact interventions* nationwide (excludes public provision of complementary food)	279	133	24	71	511	109	7	79
High‐impact interventions* in highest burden regions (excludes public provision of complementary food)	97	134	18	75	271	129	4	78

Sources: Shekar et al. 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2015c.

DALY, disability‐adjusted life year; DRC, Democratic Republic of the Congo; n/a, not available.

All scenarios in the table are very cost‐effective according to WHO‐CHOICE thresholds (WHO 2014).

DALYs are discounted at 3%.

^* Interventions include community nutrition interventions for growth promotion, vitamin A supplementation, therapeutic zinc supplementation with ORS, multiple micronutrient supplementation, deworming, iron–folic acid supplementation, iron fortification of staple foods, salt iodization, public provision of complementary food for the prevention of moderate acute malnutrition and community‐based treatment of severe acute malnutrition.