Table 1 |
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Mean direct costs (USD) per malaria episode |
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| Travel* |
Treatment* |
Proportion of actual (non-trial) visits** |
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| Health facility (% of trial population attendance) |
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| Village Health Worker (1.6%) |
0.08 |
0.97 |
60% |
| Community Health Centre (100%) |
0.11 |
0.00 |
38% |
| Other treatment facility – hospital, private clinic, dispensary (3.2%) |
0.96 |
0.19 |
2% |
| Mean total direct costs per episode under non-trial conditions |
0.69 USD |
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*Data from survey of patients attending CHC ** Data from large passive case detection study [8] |
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Morel et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:166 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-166 |
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