Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Hospitalization and Home-Based Care Strategies for People Living with HIV/AIDS: The Case of Zimbabwe

Table 9

Variables, parameters, and parameter values used in the model.

Variable	Description
	Susceptible individuals
	Unidentified asymptomatic HIV infected individuals
	Screened and identified HIV infected individuals
	Symptomatic with full blown AIDS individuals
	Hospitalized AIDS
	Community home-based care
Parameter	Description	Range/source
	Recruitment rate into susceptible class	52600
	The transmission contact rate	(0, 1) [28]
	Measuring how individuals respond to the increase or decrease of mortality due to HIV/AIDS	(10, 100)—Fitted
	Non-HIV/AIDS death rate	0.029 [20]
	CHBC efficacy rate	(0, 1)—Fitted
	Withdrawal proportion from risky sexual activities due to counselling	(0, 1)—fitted
	Adjustment factors due to behavioural change	(0, 3)—fitted
	Rate of seeking care and treatment from CHBC by the screened infective individuals	(0.01, 0.053)—fitted
	Rate of seeking care and treatment from CHBC of AIDS individuals discharged from hospital	0.053—[24]
	Recruitment rate into hospital	(0.05, 0.8)—[29]
	Progression rate to AIDS of unidentified infective individuals	—[5]
	Progression rate to AIDS of screened infective individuals	—[20]
	Screening rate of unidentified infective individuals	(0.05, 0.3)/[13]
()	Disease induced death rates	(0.05, 0.33)—[30–32]