Cost-per-diagnosis as a metric for monitoring cost-effectiveness of HIV testing programmes in low-income settings in southern Africa: health economic and modelling analysis.
Andrew N PhillipsValentina CambianoFumiyo NakagawaLoveleen Bansi-MatharuDavid P WilsonIlesh JaniTsitsi ApolloMark SculpherTimothy HallettCliff KerrJoep J van OosterhoutJeffrey W EatonJanne EstillBrian WilliamsNaoko DoiFrances Mary CowanOlivia KeiserDeborah FordKarin HatzoldRuanne BarnabasHelen AylesGesine Meyer-RathLisa NelsonCheryl JohnsonRachel BaggaleyAde FakoyaAndreas JahnPaul RevillPublished in: Journal of the International AIDS Society (2020)
For testing programmes in low-income settings in southern African there is an extremely strong relationship between the cost-per-diagnosis and the cost-per-DALY averted, indicating that the cost-per-diagnosis can be used to monitor the cost-effectiveness of testing programmes.