The Costs of Delivering Integrated HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health Services in Limited Resource Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To present evidence on the total costs and unit costs of delivering six integrated sexual reproductive health and HIV services in a high and medium HIV prevalence setting, in order to support policy makers and planners scaling up these essential services.

Design

A retrospective facility based costing study conducted in 40 non-government organization and public health facilities in Kenya and Swaziland.

Methods

Economic and financial costs were collected retrospectively for the year 2010/11, from each study site with an aim to estimate the cost per visit of six integrated HIV and SRH services. A full cost analysis using a combination of bottom-up and step-down costing methods was conducted from the health provider's perspective. The main unit of analysis is th

SUBMITTER: Obure CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416893 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature