Table 2. Costs of HIV interventions in 6 cities from 2015–2019 (in million CNY).
| Cost for HIV Intervention | S | Y | N | Z | F | W |
| Note: N/A indicates missing data. The 6 cities include Shijiazhuang, Yantai, Ningbo, Zhenjiang, Foshan, and Wuxi, abbreviated as S, Y, N, Z, F, and W, respectively.
Abbreviations: HIV=Human immunodeficiency virus; CNY=Chinese yuan; MSM=Men who have sex with men; STI=Sexually transmitted infection; VCT=Voluntary counseling and testing; PrEP=Pre-exposure prophylaxis; PMTCT=Prevention of mother-to-child transmission; PEP=Post-exposure prophylaxis; ARV=AIDS-related virus; ART=Antiretroviral therapy; HR=Human resource. * The cost of male sex workers and clients in city S was not 0, but 2,654 CNY. † The unit cost of this indicator in city S was quite different from the other cities, therefore, the average value of other cities filled in the unit cost had been taken. § To ensure the comparability of total costs in all cities, i.e., all sub cost items in 6 cities were the same, the total costs in this study did not include the costs of condom provision, PMTCT, blood safety, and laboratory equipment. | ||||||
| Prevention | 7.29 | 27.90 | 33.96 | 8.95 | 30.26 | 16.15 |
| Priority populations | 0.96 | 2.61 | 14.80 | 0.88 | 14.61 | 4.76 |
| Youth focused interventions | 0.19 | 0.00 | 2.54 | 0.04 | 2.83 | 0.12 |
| Female sex workers and clients | 0.04 | 0.02 | 1.96 | 0.01 | 0.53 | 0.62 |
| Male sex workers and clients | 0.00* | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cash transfers | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Injecting drug users | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.59 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| MSM | 0.41† | 0.37 | 0.85 | 0.07 | 1.23 | 0.98 |
| Community mobilization | 0.32 | 2.23 | 9.45 | 0.17 | 10.01 | 3.03 |
| Service delivery§ | 1.59 | 4.78 | 12.15 | 2.96 | 6.89 | 1.54 |
| Condom provision§ | 204.54 | 30.45 | 18.09 | 5.72 | 139.80 | 111.72 |
| STI management | 0.40 | 0.30 | 7.21 | 0.03 | 6.10 | 0.56 |
| VCT | 0.94 | 4.28 | 4.82 | 2.86 | 0.36 | 0.98 |
| Male circumcision | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| PrEP | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| PMTCT§ | 8.37 | 0.08 | 0.76 | 0.18 | 1.51 | 0.04 |
| Mass media | 0.26 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.43 | 0.00 |
| Health care§ | 4.74 | 20.51 | 7.01 | 5.11 | 8.76 | 9.85 |
| Blood safety§ | 110.40 | 35.55 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 6.02 |
| PEP | 0.00 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Safe injection | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Universal precautions | 4.74 | 20.34 | 6.86 | 5.11 | 8.76 | 9.85 |
| Care and treatment services | 37.16† | 17.58 | 50.90 | 13.06 | 36.95 | 34.67 |
| ARV therapy | 17.06† | 8.47 | 33.58 | 7.77 | 18.47 | 9.43 |
| Non-ART care and prophylaxis | 20.10† | 9.10 | 17.32 | 5.30 | 18.48 | 25.25 |
| Program support§ | 2.32 | 2.08 | 52.64 | 2.71 | 7.16 | 7.48 |
| Enabling environment | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Program management | 1.28 | 0.71 | 44.40 | 0.80 | 0.93 | 5.19 |
| Research | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Monitoring and evaluation | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.12 | 0.41 |
| Strategic communication | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Logistics | 0.06 | 0.37 | 5.92 | 0.41 | 3.08 | 0.83 |
| Program-level HR | 0.81 | 0.85 | 2.28 | 1.34 | 2.30 | 0.90 |
| Training | 0.13 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.10 | 0.73 | 0.15 |
| Laboratory equipment§ | 1.36 | 2.8 | 3.01 | 27.11 | 30.97 | N/A |
| Total millions of CNY§ | 46.78 | 47.55 | 137.49 | 24.73 | 74.37 | 58.30 |
| Total populations | 10,699,314 | 7,065,362 | 7,936,082 | 3,183,832 | 4,235,791 | 6,543,320 |
| Per capita HIV intervention cost (CNY) | 4.37 | 6.73 | 17.33 | 7.77 | 17.56 | 8.91 |
| Cost ratio of prevention to treatment | 0.20 | 1.59 | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.82 | 0.47 |