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. 2021 Mar 31;9(1):107–122. doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00447

TABLE 2.

Results of Costing Analysis in Bangladesh and Tanzania

Bangladesh
Tanzania
PPIUD Initiative National Scale-Up Model PPIUD Initiative National Scale-Up Model
Program design
    Number of facilitiesa 6 36 6 28
    Setup period, months 4 4 4 4
    Implementation period, months 36 36 27 36
    Number of PPIUDs inserted 8,031 26,507 7,448 43,928
Costing analysis
    Estimated total cost US$539,285 US$1,979,140 US$1,869,507 US$6,910,494
    Estimated cost of direct PPIUD service provisionb US$1.71 US$1.71 US$2.05 US$2.05
    Cost per facility per year US$27,986 US$17,373 US$130,697 US$79,223
    Main cost driver Facility staffc
(58% total cost)
Facility staffc
(53% total cost)
Training
(76% total cost)
Training
(80% total cost)
    Estimated direct health care costs saved (Impact 2) US$802,368 US$2,648,284 US$1,348,744 US$7,954,649
    Estimated total costs after including estimated health care costs saved (Impact 2) −US$263,083 −US$669,144 US$520,763 −US$1,044,156

Abbreviation: PPIUD, postpartum intrauterine device.

a

Note the facilities included in the national scale-up model include the facilities in the PPIUD initiative plus additional facilities at the equivalent level of the public health care system. For Tanzania, each hospital in the scale-up model is assumed to have 4–6 associated satellite facilities that are trained in postpartum family planning counseling and given IEC materials to distribute and that refer clients to the hospitals, as was done in the PPIUD initiative.

b

Includes cost of initial insertion, follow-up visit, and eventual removal using weighted averages. Cost of counseling is included for Tanzania but not for Bangladesh (cost of counselors in Bangladesh is included in staff costs, not direct service costs). Government reimbursements paid in Bangladesh are not included here.

c

Facility staff in Bangladesh include counselors and honorariums in the PPIUD initiative. Counselors only are included in the national scale-up model.