Sales and pricing decisions for HIV self-test kits among local drug shops in Tanzania: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public health initiatives must look for ways to cost-effectively scale critical interventions to achieve high coverage. Private sector distribution channels, can potentially distribute preventive healthcare products to hard-to-reach populations, decongest public healthcare systems, and increase the sustainability of programs by getting customers to share costs. However, little is known about how sellers set prices for new products. By introducing a new product, HIV self-test kits, to local drug shops, we observed whether shops experimented with pricing, charged different buyers different prices, and whether prices converged within the local market over our study period.

Methods

From August to December 2019, we provided free HIV self-test kits, a new product, to 26

SUBMITTER: Chiu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8101213 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature