Elliot Marseille, Lalit Dandona, Nell Marshall, Paul Gaist, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Brandi Rollins, Stefano M Bertozzi, Jerry Coovadia, Joseph Saba, Dmitry Lioznov, Jo-Ann Du Plessis, Evgeny Krupitsky, Nicci Stanley, Mead Over, Alena Peryshkina, S G Prem Kumar, Sowedi Muyingo, Christian Pitter, Mattias Lundberg, James G Kahn
BACKGROUND: Economic theory and limited empirical data suggest that costs per unit of HIV prevention program output (unit costs) will initially decrease as small programs expand. Unit costs may then reach a nadir and start to increase if expansion continues beyond the economically optimal size. Information on the relationship between scale and unit costs is critical to project the cost of global HIV prevention efforts and to allocate prevention resources efficiently. METHODS: The "Prevent AIDS: Network for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" (PANCEA) project collected 2003 and 2004 cost and output data from 206 HIV prevention programs of six types in five countries...
July 12, 2007: BMC Health Services Research