Costs and Cost Drivers of Providing Option B+ Services to Mother-Baby Pairs for PMTCT of HIV in Health Centre IV Facilities in Jinja District, Uganda

Table 3

Cost parameters and unit costs at a national level, and data source.

Cost parameter	Unit cost in 2014 USD	Data source
Monthly ART for the mother (TDF+3TC+EFV)	12.0	NMS
Nevirapine syrup	1.7	NMS
CD4 test	8.0	NMS
HIV DNA PCR test	30.0	NMS
HIV testing (Determine+STAT-PACK test kits)	2.5	Gaston Co.
Testing using Uni-Gold test kit	2.6	Gaston Co.

National Medical Stores; parameters at the national level including cost of medications, unit costs of laboratory tests (CD4, DNA PCR, and HIV testing), gestation at start of Option B+, useful life of motorcycle (7 years), and the discount rate (3%) were applied to all facility-level cost estimations.