Piloting a programme tool to evaluate malaria case investigation and reactive case detection activities: results from 3 settings in the Asia Pacific

Table 6 Costing summary results from pilot study areas

Study area	Data collection period	Personnel^a		Commodities, services and other		Total cost		Average monthly cost^b
Study area	Data collection period	All malaria activities	CI/RACD only	All other malaria activities	CI/RACD only	All malaria activities	CI/RACD only	All malaria activities	CI/RACD only
Aceh	September 2013 (1 month)	n/a	$ 3469.56	n/a	$ 257.55	n/a	$ 3727.11	n/a	$ 3727.11
Jiangsu	January–December 2012 (12 months)	$ 9101.13	$ 4550.56	$ 5513.89	$ 5587.08	$ 20,202.10	$ 10,137.64	$ 1683.50	$ 844.80
Ranong	January–December 2014 (12 months)	n/a	$ 10,486.61	n/a	$ 13,969.43	n/a	$ 24,456.04	n/a	$ 2038.00

All costs converted from local currency to US dollars ($), adjusted for inflation, and shown in 2016 USD$
n/a data costs not available, CI case investigation, RACD reactive case detection
^aNumber of personnel included for each study site: Aceh (29), Jiangsu (3), Ranong (28)
^bAverage monthly costs equals total cost divided by number of months in the data collection period

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