Estimation of the costs of cervical cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment in rural Shanxi Province, China: a micro-costing study

Table 1 Direct medical costs of cervical screening and diagnosis (US$)

	Clinical visit cost	Laboratory cost	Programmatic cost†	Aggregated cost
VIA only	0.96	0.00	1.28	2.24
Combined VIA/VILI	1.28	0.00	1.36	2.64
careHPV (self-sampling)	0.10	5.75	1.64	7.49
careHPV (clinician-sampling)	0.81	5.75	1.39	7.95
Full colposcopy, without biopsy	2.88	0.00	1.02	3.90
Biopsy only	1.55	3.68	0.53	5.76
ECC only	1.14	3.07	0.42	4.63
Biopsy + ECC	1.90	8.18	0.53	10.61

† The programmatic cost included staff transportation (for careHPV self-sampling strategy only), advertising/ recruitment, training/ quality control, and data management.

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