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

Table 3 Burden of disease averted and total costs of a package of health interventions selected based on a pure cost-effectiveness criterion, 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	1.4	45.3
Meningitis	Treatment	Inpatient care	0.9	12.3
Dysentery	Treatment	Outpatient care, inpatient care	0.7	17.8
Complicated delivery	Treatment	Inpatient care	0.5	15.5
Gastritis	Treatment	Outpatient care, inpatient care	0.4	24.9
Trachoma	Treatment	Outpatient care	0.4	2.7
Glaucoma	Treatment	Inpatient care	0.4	4.8
Gastroenteritis	Treatment	Outpatient care, inpatient care	0.3	15.7
Inguinal hernia	Treatment	Inpatient care	0.1	2.7
Childhood cluster	Prevention	Vertical programme	0.1	3.9
Peptic ulcer	Treatment	Outpatient care, inpatient care	0.1	2.8
Pelvic inflam. disease	Treatment	Outpatient care, inpatient care	0.1	9.6
Appendicitis	Treatment	Inpatient care	0.1	3.4
Bacterial conjunctivitis	Treatment	Outpatient care	0.1	1.0
Schistosomiasis	Treatment	Outpatient care	0.1	1.0
Total			27.2	300.0

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