Cost-effectiveness of social marketing of insecticide-treated nets for malaria control in the United Republic of Tanzania.
Hanson, Kara;
Kikumbih, Nassor;
Armstrong Schellenberg, Joanna;
Mponda, Haji;
Nathan, Rose;
Lake, Sally;
Mills, Anne;
Tanner, Marcel;
Lengeler, Christian;
(2003)
Cost-effectiveness of social marketing of insecticide-treated nets for malaria control in the United Republic of Tanzania.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 81 (4).
pp. 269-276.
ISSN 0042-9686
https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/16369
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the costs and consequences of a social marketing approach to malaria control in children by means of insecticide-treated nets in two rural districts of the United Republic of Tanzania, compared with no net use. METHODS: Project cost data were collected prospectively from accounting records. Community effectiveness was estimated on the basis of a nested case-control study and a cross-sectional cluster sample survey. FINDINGS: The social marketing approach to the distribution of insecticide-treated nets was estimated to cost 1560 US dollars per death averted and 57 US dollars per disability-adjusted life year averted. These figures fell to 1018 US dollars and 37 US dollars, respectively, when the costs and consequences of untreated nets were taken into account. CONCLUSION: The social marketing of insecticide-treated nets is an attractive intervention for preventing childhood deaths from malaria.
