Table 5.
Economic cost of SMC per rounds and accounting coverage in Kita (US $ 2016)
| 1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | 4th round | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost (US $) | 90,526 | 88,345 | 89,466 | 89,157 | 357,494 | |||
| Total Number of Individual Children reached | 98,790 | 104,477 | 108,659 | 105,093 | ||||
| Cost per child per round | 0.92 | 0.85 | 0.82 | 0.85 | 3.43 | |||
| Adherence descriptiona | Coverage rate | Cost per child accounting for adherence rates | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Received at least the first day treatment of SMC in all 4 rounds | 53.8% | US $ 6.38 | ||||||
| Received at least the first day treatment of SMC in at least 3 rounds | 73.1% | US $ 4.69 | ||||||
| Received at least the first day treatment of SMC in at least 2 rounds | 84.8% | US $4.05 | ||||||
aBased on information from maternal interview only Taken from Diawara et al. [13]. Table 1 Coverage of SMC defined as proportion of children who received SMC drugs at day 1 and days 1–3 according to the source of the information (interview or SMC card) during the coverage survey and Prof Alassane Dicko personal communication