Vaccine-Preventable Haemophilus influenza Type B Disease Burden and Cost-Effectiveness of Infant Vaccination in Indonesia.
Gessner, BD;
Sedyaningsih, ER;
Griffiths, UK;
Sutanto, A;
Linehan, M;
Mercer, D;
Mulholland, EK;
Walker, DG;
Steinhoff, M;
Nadjib, M;
(2008)
Vaccine-Preventable Haemophilus influenza Type B Disease Burden and Cost-Effectiveness of Infant Vaccination in Indonesia.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 27 (5).
pp. 438-43.
ISSN 0891-3668
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0b013e318165f1ba
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BACKGROUND: Most of Asia, including Indonesia, does not use Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccines. We estimated total vaccine-preventable disease burden and the cost-effectiveness of Hib conjugate vaccine in Indonesia. METHODS: Hib pneumonia and meningitis incidences for children with access to health care were derived from a randomized vaccine probe study on Lombok Island, Indonesia during 1998-2002. Incidences were adjusted for limited access to care. Health system and patient out-of-pocket treatment cost data were collected concurrent with the probe study. For Hib vaccine in monovalent and combined (with DTP-HepB) presentations, we used 2007 UNICEF vaccine prices of US$3.30 and $3.75 per dose. RESULTS: For the 2007 Indonesian birth cohort, Hib vaccine would prevent meningitis in 1 of every 179 children, pneumonia in 1 of every 18 children, and 4.9% of mortality among those younger than 5 years. The total incremental societal costs of introducing Hib vaccine in monovalent and pentavalent presentations were, respectively, US$11.74 and $8.93 per child vaccinated. Annual discounted treatment costs averted amounted to 20% of pentavalent vaccine costs. For the pentavalent vaccine, the incremental costs per discounted death and disability adjusted life-year averted amounted to US$3102 and $74, respectively, versus $4438 and $102 for monovalent vaccine. CONCLUSIONS: Routine infant Hib vaccination would prevent a large burden of pediatric illness and death in Indonesia. Even without external funding support, Hib vaccine will be a highly cost-effective intervention in either a monovalent or pentavalent presentation based on commonly used benchmarks.