The costs of a sexually transmitted infection outreach and treatment programme targeting most at risk youth in Tajikistan

Table 1 Estimated population in need and service utilization rates

Category	Estimated/observed in 3 pilot sites	Projected for 8 national sites	Ranges used in scenario analysis
			Low	High
Number of Youth	163,945	294,469
Number of MARA	4,068	8,020	4,906	10,507
Number of Facilities	3	8	8	8
Number of visits to YFHS per MARA per Year	0.602	0.602	0.602	0.800
Number of STI tests per YFHS visit	0.779	0.779	0.779	0.95
Number of HIV tests per YFHS visit	0.245	0.245	0.200	0.300
Number of STI infections treated per STI test	0.229	0.229	0.229	0.229

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