Table 3

HIV care and treatment studies

CitationAuthorDateCountryHIV prevalenceTarget population/settingIntegration detailIntervention scaleCosting methodsUnit costs and cost-effectivenessUnit
HIV palliative care
 W31Hansen1998Zimbabwe26.30Facility-based home outreach
  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • At Scale

  • 4 schemes costed

  • 67 schemes existing

  • Economic

  • Full costs

  • Health services perspective

  • (1) $191

  • (2) $465.9

  • (3) $509.7

  • (4) $271.3

  • (1) Home visit (urban)

  • (2) Home visit (rural)

  • (3) Home visit (rural)

  • (4) Home visit (urban)

Zimbabwe26.30Facility-based home outreach
  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • At scale

  • 4 schemes costed

  • 67 schemes existing

  • Economic

  • Full costs

  • Household costs

$825.7–$12493 months
 W32Chandler2004Rwanda3.20
  • (1) Facility-based home outreach

  • (2) Facility-based home outreach

  • (3) Facility-based home outreach

  • (4) Community-based home outreach

  • (5) Community-based home outreach

  • (6) Community-based home outreach

  • (7) Community-based home outreach

  • (8) Community-based home outreach

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • At scale (assumed)

  • 8 schemes costed

  • Full costs

  • Economic

  • Health service perspective

  • (1) $39.08

  • (2) $37.21

  • (3) $43.01

  • (4) $29.26

  • (5) $16.15

  • (6) $28.49

  • (7) $16.21

  • (8) $15.21

Client per month
 W33Bikilla2009EthiopiaUnknown
  • HIV patients

  • HIV clinic within district hospital

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • At scale

  • 1 facility costed

  • 272 sites existing

  • Economic (assumed)

  • Full costs

  • District hospital perspective

  • (a) $35

  • (b) $92

  • (a) Patient annually (outpatient)

  • (b) Patient annually (inpatient)

 W34Uys2002South Africa17.70Community-based home outreach, clinic and hospital careNot clear
  • Pilot

  • 7 sites

  • Economic

  • Incremental costs

  • Health services perspective

$1209Patient annually
Cotrimoxazole preventive therapy
 W17Hausler2006South Africa17
  • CT, ANC TB and STI clients

  • (1) Community health centre

  • (2) PHC clinic

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • Pilot

  • 3 facilities costed

  • 12 facilities existing

  • Economic

  • Full costs

  • Health services perspective

  • (1) (a) $10

    • (b) $53

  • (2) (a) $7

    • (b) $24

  • (1) (a) Person per 6 months of treatment

    • (b) Person completing treatment

 W35Pitter2007Uganda6.30
  • (1) All HIV-positive individuals

  • (2) WHO stages ≥2

  • (3) CD4<500

  • (4) WHO stages ≥2 or CD4<500 facility-based home outreach/hospital

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • Pilot

  • 1 scheme

  • Economic

  • Incremental costs

  • Health services perspective

  • (1) $54.45

  • (2) $59.05

  • (3) $77.03

  • (4) $59.15

  • Do nothing: $57.37

Patient annually
 W36Yazdanpanah2005Cote D'Ivoire4.80
  • University hospital and community clinics

  • (1) WHO stage ≥3

  • (2) WHO stage ≥2

  • (3) CD4≤50

  • (4) CD4≤200

  • (5) CD4≤500

  • (6) All HIV positive

Not clear
  • Model

  • Scale not clear

  • Costing not clear

  • Incremental costs

  • Health service perspective

  • (1) $1661

  • (2) $1700

  • (3) $1752

  • (4) $1752

  • (5) $1790

  • (6) $1700

Person lifetime
Cote D'Ivoire4.80
  • University hospital and community clinics

  • (1) WHO stages ≥3

  • (2) WHO stages ≥2

  • (3) CD4≤50

  • (4) CD4≤200

  • (5) CD4≤500

  • (6) All HIV positive

Not clear
  • Model

  • Scale not clear

  • Costing not clear

  • Incremental costs

  • Health service perspective

  • (1) $142

  • (2) $258

  • (3) Dominated

  • (4) Dominated

  • (5) Dominated

  • (6) $193

Life year saved over do-nothing
PMTCT
 W37Stringer2000Sub-Saharan Africa15% assumed
  • (1) (a) ANC clients (targeted therapy)

    • (b) ANC clients (mass therapy)

  • (2) (a) Labour/delivery clients (infant only)

    • (b) Labour/delivery clients (mass therapy)

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • Model

  • Scale not clear

  • Costing not clear

  • Full costs (assumed)

  • Third-party payer perspective

  • (1) (a) $153 886

    • (b) $175 493

  • (2) (a) $114 415

    • (b) $155 850

  • Do nothing: $139 240

10 000 women
 W21Sweat2004
  • (1) Botswana

  • (2) Cote d'Ivoire

  • (3) Kenya

  • (4) Rwanda

  • (5) Tanzania

  • (6) Uganda

  • (7) Zambia

  • (8) Zimbabwe

  • (1) 25.8

  • (2) 5.3

  • (3) 7.1

  • (4) 3.2

  • (5) 6.4

  • (6) 6.4

  • (7) 14

  • (8) 19.8

ANC clients
  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • Model

  • National

  • Costing not clear

  • Incremental costs

  • Health services Perspective

  • (1) $2329

  • (2) $11 924

  • (3) $5528

  • (4) $2406

  • (5) $2942

  • (6) $6255

  • (7) $3305

  • (8) $4602

Perinatal HIV infection averted
  • (1) Botswana

  • (2) Cote d'Ivoire

  • (3) Kenya

  • (4) Rwanda

  • (5) Tanzania

  • (6) Uganda

  • (7) Zambia

  • (8) Zimbabwe

  • (1) 25.8

  • (2) 5.3

  • (3) 7.1

  • (4) 3.2

  • (5) 6.4

  • (6) 6.4

  • (7) 14

  • (8) 19.8

ANC clients
  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • Model

  • National

  • Costing not clear

  • Incremental costs

  • Health services Perspective

  • (1) $75

  • (2) $399

  • (3) $180

  • (4) $85

  • (5) $99

  • (6) $216

  • (7) $111

  • (8) $148

DALY averted
 W16Bratt2011Zambia13.50
  • (1) Arthur Davison Children's Hospital

  • (2) Ndola Central Hospital

  • (3) Chipokota Mayamba Clinic

  • (4) Kabwe General Hospital

  • (5) Mahatma Gandhi Health Center

  • (6) Kasanda Health Center

  • (7) Kabompo District Hospital

  • (8) St. Kalemba Clinic

  • (9) Mufumbwa Health Center

  • (10) Kawambwa District Hospital

  • (11) Mbereshi Mission Hospital

  • (12) Kawambwa Central Clinic

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • At scale

  • 12 facilities costed

  • 219 facilities existing

  • Economic

  • Full costs

  • Health services Perspective

  • (1) NA

  • (2) $28–$50

  • (3) $20–$51

  • (4) NA

  • (5) NA

  • (6) $20

  • (7) $38–$62

  • (8) $73

  • (9) $58

  • (10) NA

  • (11) $31–$62

  • (12) NA

PMTCT visit
ART
 W38Kitajima2003Thailand1.50HIV clinics within regional hospitals
  • Referral

  • Same structure

  • Pilot

  • 2 hospitals

  • Financial (assumed)

  • Full costs

  • Third-party payer perspective

  • (a) $354

  • (b) $420.6

  • (a) Outpatient visit

  • (b) Inpatient visit

 W39Rosen2008South Africa17.90
  • (1) ART patients (hospital)

  • (2) ART patients (private ART programme)

  • (3) ART patients (stand-alone HIV clinic)

  • (4) ART patients (PHC clinic)

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • At scale

  • 4 facilities costed

  • Economic

  • Full costs

  • Health services Perspective

  • (1) $831

  • (2) $984

  • (3) $1024

  • (4) $1237

Patient annually
 W33Bikilla2009EthiopiaUnknown
  • HIV patients

  • HIV clinic within district hospital

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • At scale

  • 1 facility costed

  • 272 sites existing

  • Economic (assumed)

  • Full costs

  • District hospital perspective

  • (a) $267

  • (b) $33

  • (a) Patient annually (outpatient)

  • (b) Patient annually (inpatient)

 W40Marseille2009Uganda6.50
  • HIV patients

  • Facility-based home outreach

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • Pilot

  • 1 HBC scheme

  • Economic (assumed)

  • Incremental costs

  • Health service perspective

$696Incremental DALY averted over CPT only
 W41Renaud2009Burundi3.30
  • ART patients

  • PHC clinic for HIV positive

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • Pilot

  • 1 facility

  • Financial (assumed)

  • Incremental costs

  • Health services perspective

  • (a) $1389

  • (b) $1177

  • (c) $1020

  • (d) $842

  • (e) $805

  • (f) $783

  • (a) Patient in 2003

  • (b) Patient in 2004

  • (c) Patient in 2005

  • (d) Patient in 2006

  • (e) Patient in 2007

  • (f) Patient in 2008

Burundi3.30
  • ART patients

  • PHC clinic for HIV positive

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • Pilot

  • 1 facility

  • Financial (assumed)

  • Incremental costs

  • Health service perspective

$275Incremental DALY averted over ‘do nothing’
 W16Bratt2011Zambia13.50
  • (1) Arthur Davison Children's Hospital

  • (2) Ndola Central Hospital

  • (3) Chipokota Mayamba Clinic

  • (4) Kabwe General Hospital

  • (5) Mahatma Gandhi Health Center

  • (6) Kasanda Health Center

  • (7) Kabompo District Hospital

  • (8) St. Kalemba Clinic

  • (9) Mufumbwa District Hospital

  • (10) Kawambwa District Hospital

  • (11) Mbereshi Mission Hospital

  • (12) Kawambwa Central Clinic

  • One stop

  • Same structure

  • At scale

  • 12 facilities costed

  • 219 facilities existing

  • Economic

  • Full costs

  • Health services Perspective

  • (1) $31

  • (2) $18–$30

  • (3) $17–$27

  • (4) $27–$30

  • (5) $NA

  • (6) $23–$33

  • (7) $35–$39

  • (8) NA

  • (9) $39–$43

  • (10) $33–$37

  • (11) $25–$34

  • (12) NA

ART visit
 W42Bautista2003Mexico0.30Hospitals and AIDS clinicsNot clear
  • At scale

  • 11 health facilities costed

  • Financial (assumed)

  • Full costs

  • Third-party payer perspective

  • (a) $997

  • (b) $881

  • (c) $1336

  • (d) $4748

  • (e) $3674

  • (f) $3686

  • (a) 3 years pre-ART

  • (b) 2 years pre-ART

  • (c) 1 year pre-ART

  • (d) 1 year post-ART

  • (e) 2 years post-ART

  • (f) 3 years post-ART

 W43Cleary2006South Africa18.10
  • ART clinics within

  • PHC clinics

Not clear
  • Pilot

  • 3 ART clinics

  • Economic

  • Full costs

  • Health services Perspective

  • (a) $23.05

  • (b) $11 253

  • (c) $1175

  • (d) $1314

  • (a) Clinic visit

  • (b) Patient lifetime

  • (c) Life year gained over do-nothing

  • (d) QALY gained over do-nothing

 W44Quentin2008Rwanda2.90PHC clinicsNot clear
  • Model

  • National

  • Financial

  • Full costs

  • Third-party payer perspective

  • $554.10

  • $100.30

  • (a) ART patient per year

  • (b) Non-ART patient per year

 W45Babigumira2009Uganda6.50
  • (1) Unspecified mobile clinic care

  • (2) Unspecified HBC

  • (3) Facility-based care

Not clear
  • Model

  • Scale not clear

  • Financial

  • Full costs

  • Health services perspective

  • (1) $4948

  • (2) $7277

  • (3) $3323

Patient annually
  • All costs adjusted to 2010 USD.

  • ANC, antenatal care; ART, antiretroviral therapy; CT, counselling and testing; DALY, disability-adjusted life year; HBC, home-based care; PHC, primary healthcare; PMTCT, prevention of mother-to-child transmission; STI, sexually transmitted infection; TB, tuberculosis; CPT, cotrimoxazole preventive therapy.