Optima TB: A tool to help optimally allocate tuberculosis spending.

ABSTRACT: Approximately 85% of tuberculosis (TB) related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries where health resources are scarce. Effective priority setting is required to maximise the impact of limited budgets. The Optima TB tool has been developed to support analytical capacity and inform evidence-based priority setting processes for TB health benefits package design. This paper outlines the Optima TB framework and how it was applied in Belarus, an upper-middle income country in Eastern Europe with a relatively high burden of TB. Optima TB is a population-based disease transmission model, with programmatic cost functions and an optimisation algorithm. Modelled populations include age-differentiated general populations and higher-risk populations such as people living with HIV. Populatio

SUBMITTER: Gosce L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8496838 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature