Efficiency in PrEP Delivery: Estimating the Annual Costs of Oral PrEP in Zimbabwe.

ABSTRACT: Although oral PrEP is highly effective at preventing HIV acquisition, optimizing continuation among beneficiaries is challenging in many settings. We estimated the costs of delivering oral PrEP to populations at risk of HIV in seven clinics in Zimbabwe. Full annual economic costs of oral PrEP initiations and continuation visits were estimated from the providers' perspective for a six-clinic NGO network and one government SGBV clinic in Zimbabwe (January-December 2018). Disaggregating costs of full initiation and incremental follow-up visits enabled modeling of the impact of duration of continuation on the cost per person-year ($pPY) on PrEP. 4677 people initiated oral PrEP, averaging 2.7 follow-up visits per person. Average cost per person initiated was $238 ($183-$302 across the NGO clini

SUBMITTER: Mangenah C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8786759 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature