Cost-effectiveness of a combined intervention of long lasting insecticidal nets and indoor residual spraying compared with each intervention alone for malaria prevention in Ethiopia

Table 3 Itemised cost of malaria prevention intervention per 10,000 population and unit costs in Adami Tullu, Ethiopia, 2014 USD

Costs and denominators	LLIN (% share)	IRS (% share)	LLIN + IRS (% share)
Costs of interventions per 10,000 population
Personnel cost	675 (6)	7883 (26)	8216 (20)
The bed net cost	9321 (88)	NA	9058 (22)
The insecticide cost	NA	17,799 (58)	17,799 (44)
Materials and supplies	74 (0.7)	2232 (7)	2248 (6)
Transport costs	527 (5)	1561 (5)	1876 (5)
Training hall	44 (0.3)	1186 (4)	1211 (3)
Annualised total cost	10,641	30,660	40,408
Unit costs^a
Cost per person year protected	1.06	3.07	4.04
Cost per under-five child year protected	6.98	20.12	26.51
Cost per pregnant woman year protected	78.67	227.67	298.74
Cost per household covered	5.49	15.56	20.51
Total number of household in the study arms	1388	1527	1618

^aThe unit costs were computed by dividing the ‘annualized total cost’— which was incurred to implement the interventions—with corresponding denominator population. The denominators were drawn from the baseline survey

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