TABLE 3.
Global treatment costs, base case analysis, expressed in 2017 dollar using purchasing power parity (1 euro = USD $0.80 PPP)
| Cost components | Estimates over 25‐month period for 399 children per arm | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard dose | Reduced dose | Savings/losses | |||
| RUTF | 20,558 | (56.2%) | 14,302 | (47%) | −6,257 |
| Supply | 17,019 | (46.6%) | 11,840 | (38.9%) | −5,180 |
| Logistic and management | 3,539 | (9.7%) | 2,462 | (8.1%) | −1,077 |
| Drugs | 702 | (1.9%) | 746 | (2.5%) | 44 |
| Consumables | 2,923 | (8%) | 2,953 | (9.7%) | 30 |
| Material | 188 | (0.5%) | 189 | (0.6%) | 1 |
| Human resources | 5,864 | (16%) | 5,885 | (19.4%) | 20 |
| Communities cost | 6,315 | (17.3%) | 6,337 | (20.8%) | 22 |
| Out‐of‐pocket expenses | 2,151 | (5.9%) | 2,158 | (7.1%) | 7 |
| Caregiver's opportunity cost | 4,156 | (11.4%) | 4,170 | (13.7%) | 14 |
| Community health workers' opportunity cost | 9 | (0.02%) | 9 | (0.03%) | 0 |
| Global costs of treatment consultations (institutional perspective) | 30,235 | 24,074 | −6,161 | ||
| Cost per child treated (institutional perspective) | 75.78 | 60.34 | −15.68 | ||
| Global costs of treatment consultations (societal perspective#) | 36,550 | (100%) | 30,411 | (100%) | −6,140 |
| Cost per child treated (societal perspective#) | 91.61 | 76.22 | 15.39 | ||
Note. #The institutional perspective includes cost borne by Action Against Hunger and the health system. The societal perspective includes institutional perspective costs and community costs.
Abbreviation: RUTF, ready‐to‐use therapeutic food.