Setting priorities for the health care sector in Zimbabwe using cost-effectiveness analysis and estimates of the burden of disease

Table 2 Burden of disease averted and total costs of a package of health interventions selected based on cost-effectiveness and relative importance of disease criteria, Zimbabwe, financial year 1997/1998

Disease group	Intervention	Level of delivery	% of 1997 disease burden averted	Total costs in millions of Z$
HIV	Prevention	Vertical programme	14.6	93.1
Pneumonia	Treatment	Outpatient care, inpatient care	2.7	19.1
Diarrhoeal diseases	Treatment	Outpatient care	2.4	8.5
Malaria	Treatment/ prevention	Outpatient care, inpatient care, vertical programme	1.8	16.0
Tuberculosis	Treatment	Inpatient care, DOTS	1.6	51.9
Complicated delivery	Treatment	Inpatient care	1.0	35.1
Meningitis	Treatment	Inpatient care	0.9	12.3
Dysentery	Treatment	Outpatient care, inpatient care	0.7	17.8
Protein-energy malnutrition	Prevention	Vertical programme	0.6	46.2
Total			26.4	300.0

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