Table 1 Parameter Assumptions and Data Sources

Exchange Rate

(annual average for 2009)

1USD = ZMK4900

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Discount rate

5%

MOH Planning Unit

Overhead costs

15%

(Of district recurrent expenditure)

District Health Office (DHO)

Personnel costs

Gross earnings

(Taken from central level)

MOH/DHO

Cost of drug

AL = 1.00 USD

SP = 0.18 USD

Quinine = 0.84 USD

NMCC, (weighted average cost per person/course including storage and distribution costs).

Cost/test

RDT = 0.6USD

Microscopy = 1.00 USD

NMCC (excludes personnel and capital costs).

Sensitivity (RDTs)

95.4%

[19, 20].

Prevalence (national)

27.0%

[13]

Annual average malaria prevalence at OPD

Kalomo = 26%

Chongwe = 22%

[9, 21]