The Incremental Cost of Delivering PrEP as a Bridge to ART for HIV Serodiscordant Couples in Public HIV Care Clinics in Kenya

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Allocation of incremental cost of PrEP delivery in a year, by resource type. The personnel cost is the salary for personnel providing service, recruitment activities include costs of activities that helped identify HIV serodiscordant couples and brought them to the study site including information, education, and communication (IEC) material and support supervision visits to HIV testing and counselling staff to encourage couple testing in order to identify HIV serodiscordant couples, and start-up costs are costs associated with training and development of standard operating procedures; building, cost of rent; laboratory, costs of performing tests for PrEP delivery, including HIV and creatinine tests; medication, costs of PrEP; and supplies, costs of office stationery and clinical consumables.