Table 1.
Summarized Description of Alternative Scenarios
| Cost Scenario | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost Category | Base-case | Less Intensive Resource Use | More Intensive Resource Use |
| Personnel | |||
| Supervision and M&E | << pilot Smaller teams and fewer days than pilot |
<<< pilot Same team and fewer days than base-case |
< pilot Bigger team and more days than base-case |
| HECM | < pilot (no sound cara) | < pilot (no sound cara) | < pilot (no sound cara) |
| AE surveillance and management | Same as pilot | << pilot (50% less than pilot) | Same as pilot |
| CDDs | < pilot (CDDs only paid for training days) | < pilot (CDDs only paid for training days) | >> pilot (CDDs were paid per diems for treatment days corresponding to the average income of an 8-h workday (to account for income loss) |
| Blood drawers and loascopists | > pilot (were paid a higher transport fee per field day, to account for more distant communities: based on responses of questionnaires) | > pilot (same as base-case) | >> pilot (higher transport fees than base-case) |
| School workers | None | None | 100 workers |
| Supplies | |||
| Fuel | > pilot (extra fuel allowance for MoH and NGDO cars) | > pilot (same as base-case) | >> pilot (higher allowances than base-case) |
| LoaScopes and capillaries | < pilot (assumed large-scale prices) | < pilot (same as base-case) | Same as pilot |
| Other consumables | < pilot (30% less than pilot) | < pilot (50% less than pilot) | Same as pilot |
Abbreviations: <, less than; <<, lesser than; <<<, much lesser than; >, more than; >>, much more than; AE, adverse events; CDD, community drug distributors; HECM, health education in the community and mobilization; M&E, monitoring and evaluation; MoH, Ministry of Health; NGDO, nongovernmental development organization.
aMegaphone-equipped car.