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Table 4 Cost in US$, per PMTCT visit

From: The potential of task-shifting in scaling up services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a time and motion study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Visits

Observations

Mean cost before task-shiftinga

Mean cost after task-shiftingb

Mean cost after task-shiftingc

Mean cost after task-shiftingd

First ANC visit

36

2.27

0.96

0.85

0.28

ANC follow-up visit

69

0.65

0.27

0.24

0.08

First PNC visit

40

1.28

0.60

0.55

0.27

PNC follow-up visit

34

0.58

0.21

0.19

0.04

  1. Means costs in US$
  2. ANC antenatal care, PNC postnatal care
  3. aCalculated based on the weighted average salary of the publically employed nurse (3 observed cadres in Table 1) in Tanzania (nurse officer US$ 495, enrolled nurse and nurse midwife US$ 437)
  4. bCalculated based on the minimum wage for a formally trained health worker in the public-sector health system in Tanzania (US$ 172 per month) [41]
  5. cCalculated based on community health worker salaries proposed in a previous study for Tanzania (US$ 150 per month) [44]
  6. dCalculated based on remuneration paid to lay health workers in another study (US$ 30 per month) [42]
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