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A meta-analysis approach for estimating average unit costs for ART using pooled facility-level primary data from African countries

Published in: African Journal of AIDS Research
Volume 18 , issue 4 : A sustainable AIDS response: results in the era of shrinking donor funding , 2019 , pages: 297–305

DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1688362

Author(s): Diego Cerecero-García National Institute of Public Health, Mexico , Carlos Pineda-Antunez National Institute of Public Health, Mexico , Lily Alexander HIV AIDS TB Research Consortium CISIDAT, Mexico , Drew Cameron Health Policy, USA , Gisela Martinez-Silva National Institute of Public Health, Mexico , Carol Dayo Obure African Development Bank Group, Tunis , Elliot Marseille Center for Global Surgical Studies, USA , Lung Vu Population Council, USA , James G Kahn Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, USA , Anna Vassall London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK , Gabriela Gomez London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK , Lori Bollinger Avenir Health, USA , Carol Levin Department of Global Health, USA , Sergio Bautista-Arredondo National Institute of Public Health, Mexico

Keywords: HIV , treatment , efficiency , cost variatio

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Abstract

Objective: To estimate facility-level average cost for ART services and explore unit cost variations using pooled facility-level cost estimates from four HIV empirical cost studies conducted in five African countries .

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