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

Conclusion: Our approach allowed us to explore unit cost variation across contexts by pooling ART costs from multiple sources. Our research provides an example of how to estimate costs based on heterogeneous sources reconciling methodological differences across studies and contributes by giving an example on how to estimate costs based on heterogeneous sources of data. Also, our study provides additional information on costs for funders, policy-makers, and decision-makers in the process of designing or scaling-up HIV interventions. PMID: 31779577 [PubMed - in process]
Source: African Journal of AIDS Research - Category: African Health Tags: Afr J AIDS Res Source Type: research