Table 6

RUMA expenses by study sites. QA = Quality control, USD = US dollars 1USD = 650 Francs CFA (Communauté Française Africaine), 1 USD = 1,050 Tanzanian Schilling in 2003.

Sites by the order of total expenses

Human resources

Transport

Communication

Stationery

Lab. materials & drugs

Others

Admin.

Total expenses USD

Total with QA*

Cotonou^§

2,375

2,942

500

447

793

0

1,000

8,582

No QA

Dar es Salaam

4,321

2,040

93

775

1,030

236

0

8,495

12,435

Ouagadougou

2,493

1,613

198

886

721

98

400

6,970

6,970^¥

Abidjan

958

411

360

569

707

47

1,000

4,577

7,237

§ without GIS mapping and 1st quality control without GIS mapping and school survey

* with second quality control at Swiss Tropical Institute.

^¥ the second quality control was free

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