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Table 3 Cost centers by level of care and magnitude of their component costs associated with SP distribution

From: Scaling-up the use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: results and lessons on scalability, costs and programme impact from three local government areas in Sokoto State, Nigeria

Cost center

Level

Description

Components costed (magnitude)

Health facility

Health Facility

SP distributed through ANC. Hub for community distribution and receipt of community consumption data

Rent and utilities (10%)

M&E documentation tools (10%)

Two health staff that operate ANC (50%)

In-facility storage (10%)

Local Government Area Council

LGA-wide, all levels

Supervision and program oversight including quality assurance, data management and coordination

Meeting venue (100%)

LOE for nine key personnel at all levels who contribute supervisory and oversight roles and collaborate in the program (5% time)

CBHV Supervisor

Community/

Facility

Technical supervision of CBHV, assuring SP availability to CBHV and data-driven accountability to WDC and HF

LOE (50%)

Transport costs of SP from HF-CBHV (100%)

Monitoring and Supervision (100%)

CBHV

Community

Oversight and coordination of community-level operations

CBHV LOE (50%)

Transport cost for SP distribution (100%)

Transport costs for home visits (100%)

Ward Development Committees

Community

Community mobilization and sustaining program momentum

Meeting attendance costs for WDC member (30%)

Meeting attendance cost of CBHV supervisor of ward (30%)

Supervision and monitoring of CBHV (100%)

Meeting/dialogue (100%)

Meeting venue (100%)