Strategy | Number treated | Assumed cost per treatment (US$) | Estimated total financial cost per year (US$) |
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School-based treatment | 6 million children [23] | 0.30b–0.56c | 1.8–3.4 million |
Community-wide treatment | 14 million individualsa | 0.32d–0.46e | 4.4–6.4 million |
- aApproximated based on demographic data from the World Bank [24]
- bBased on the WHO MDA cost benchmark model [25]
- cEstimate from Evidence Action (a programmatic estimate for 2015) [23]
- dBased on the estimate from the TUMIKIA trial [4]: routine scenario (excluding the research costs) relating to whole county (i.e. estimate at scale). US$0.025 per treatment was added for the cost of albendazole [4]
- eBased on the estimate from the TUMIKIA trial [4]—routine scenario (excluding the research costs) relating to trial areas only. US$0.025 per treatment was added for the cost of albendazole [4]