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Table 7 Summary of costs calculated in the cervical precancer planning tool (CPPT) by treatment scenario (Uganda example)

From: Acting on the call for cervical cancer elimination: Planning tools for low- and middle- income countries to increase the coverage and effectiveness of screening and treatment

Screening costs (USD)

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

Scenario 4

Scenario 5

Total cost per year

$536,065

$126,227

$50,023

$31,517

$23,033

Cost of gas cryotherapy equipmenta

$142,853

$30,348

$9,852

$5,014

$1,006

Cost of non-gas thermal ablationa

$371,373

$78,894

$25,612

$13,035

$2,615

Cost of gas for gas cryotherapy

$16,962

$13,193

$11,308

$10,461

$15,077

Cost of health care provider time

$4,877

$3,793

$3,251

$3,008

$4,335

Cost per woman treated

$50.09

$15.16

$7.01

$4.78

$2.42

  1. Scenarios for deploying treatment devices and (% of eligible women who receive treatment): 1: Screen and treat (90%); 2: Hospital (70%); 3: District (60%); 4: District clustering (50%); 5: Hybrid static-mobile (80%)
  2. aCost assumes 24% gas cryotherapy and 76% thermal ablation devices based on urbanization data in Uganda