Table 1.

Total cost of HIVST kit distribution by submodel

	Horizontal PHC (ANC)	Horizontal PHC (index)	Vertical PHC	Fixed point	Mobile integration	Transport hubs	Flexible community	Key populations	Sex worker network	Workplace (third party)	Workplace (direct)
Capital costs
Start-up training	$639	$406	$864	$1286	$575	$2927	$15 391	$59	$299	$2287	$343
Building and storage	$521	$365	$179	$1634	$1089	$0	$40 811	$1083	$0	$14 072	$6433
Sensitisation	$562	$171	$13 283	$2643	$213	$5174	$27 112	$23 035	$178	$35 418	$21 982
Start-up other	$97	$61	$2986	$812	$50	$1356	$8289	$7723	$106	$7129	$8289
Equipment	$1243	$570	$1440	$8028	$2979	$24 941	$3851	$3784	$399	$7828	$3110
Vehicles	$0	$0	$278	$14 248	$4749	$15 794	$3735	$18	$0	$16 200	$72
Total capital costs	$3061	$1573	$19 030	$28 651	$9652	$50 192	$99 189	$35 701	$983	$82 934	$40 229
Recurrent costs
Personnel	$48 444	$31 041	$77 051	$306 208	$13 875	$247 623	$1 345 003	$4977	$10 067	$525 899	$28 482
Test kits	$15 702	$11 030	$18 861	$296 986	$6258	$470 604	$2 131 716	$46 279	$35 188	$608 985	$126 812
Other supplies	$4926	$4281	$292	$17 978	$6291	$50 547	$42 018	$1233	$8345	$17 035	$5807
Transportation	$146	$92	$839	$17 690	$2425	$17 840	$167 964	$1039	$3295	$60 324	$2990
Building operation and maintenance	$4321	$2970	$83	$180	$11	$43 375	$18 645	$455	$24	$462	$2811
Other recurrent costs	$0	$0	$2027	$0	$0	$27 020	$198 877	$5309	$0	$1887	$26 166
mHealth	$1489	$944	$0	$12 523	$765	$33 162	$0	$0	$1640	$32 141	$0
Total recurrent costs	$73 538	$49 415	$99 153	$651 565	$29 625	$890 169	$3 904 223	$59 292	$58 558	$1 246 733	$193 069
Total cost of HIVST distribution	$76 599	$50 988	$118 183	$680 217	$39 276	$940 361	$4 003 412	$94 994	$59 541	$1 329 667	$233 298
Number of kits distributed	5452	3830	6549	103 120	2173	163 404	543 426	16 069	12 218	211 453	43 032
Cost per test kit distributed	$14.05	$13.31	$18.05	$6.60	$18.07	$5.75	$7.37	$5.91	$4.87	$6.29	$5.30

ANC, antenatal care; HIVST, HIV self-testing; mHealth, mobile health; PHC, primary healthcare.