Rosen Sydney, Nichols Brooke, Guthrie Teresa, Benade Mariet, Kuchukhidze Salome, Long Lawrence
Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa.
Gates Open Res. 2022 Feb 25;5:177. doi: 10.12688/gatesopenres.13458.2. eCollection 2021.
: "Differentiated service delivery" (DSD) for antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV is rapidly being scaled up throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but only recently have data become available on the costs of DSD models to healthcare providers and to patients. We synthesized recent studies of DSD model costs in five African countries. : The studies included cluster randomized trials in Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and observational studies in Uganda and Zambia. For 3-5 models per country, studies collected patient-level data on clinical outcomes and provider costs for 12 months. We compared costs of differentiated models to those of conventional care, identified drivers of cost differences, and summarized patient costs of seeking care. : The studies described 22 models, including conventional care. Of these, 13 were facility-based and 9 community-based models; 15 were individual and 7 group models. Average provider cost/patient/year ranged from $100 for conventional care in Zambia to $187 for conventional care with 3-month dispensing in Zimbabwe. Most DSD models had comparable costs to conventional care, with a difference in mean annual cost per patient ranging from 11.4% less to 9.2% more, though some models in Zambia cost substantially more. Compared to all other models, models incorporating 6-month dispensing were consistently slightly less expensive to the provider per patient treated. Savings to patients were substantial for most models, with patients' costs roughly halved. : In five field studies of the costs of DSD models for HIV treatment, most models within each country had relatively similar costs to one another and to conventional care. 6-month dispensing models were slightly less expensive, and most models provided substantial savings to patients. Limitations of our analysis included differences in costs included in each study. Research is needed to understand the effect of DSD models on the costs of ART programmes as a whole.
用于艾滋病毒抗逆转录病毒疗法(ART)的“差异化服务提供”(DSD)正在撒哈拉以南非洲迅速推广,但直到最近才有关于DSD模式对医疗服务提供者和患者成本的数据。我们综合了五个非洲国家近期关于DSD模式成本的研究。:这些研究包括莱索托、马拉维、赞比亚和津巴布韦的整群随机试验以及乌干达和赞比亚的观察性研究。每个国家针对3 - 5种模式,研究收集了患者层面12个月的临床结果和医疗服务提供者成本数据。我们将差异化模式的成本与传统护理的成本进行了比较,确定了成本差异的驱动因素,并总结了患者的就医成本。:这些研究描述了22种模式,包括传统护理。其中,13种是基于设施的模式,9种是基于社区的模式;15种是个体模式,7种是群体模式。每位患者每年的平均医疗服务提供者成本从赞比亚传统护理的100美元到津巴布韦3个月配药的传统护理的187美元不等。大多数DSD模式的成本与传统护理相当,每位患者的年均成本差异从低11.4%到高9.2%不等,不过赞比亚的一些模式成本要高得多。与所有其他模式相比,采用6个月配药的模式每位接受治疗的患者对医疗服务提供者来说始终略便宜一些。大多数模式为患者节省了大量费用,患者成本大致减半。:在五项关于艾滋病毒治疗DSD模式成本的实地研究中,每个国家的大多数模式彼此之间以及与传统护理的成本相对相似。6个月配药模式略便宜一些,大多数模式为患者节省了大量费用。我们分析的局限性包括每项研究中所包含成本的差异。需要开展研究以了解DSD模式对整个抗逆转录病毒治疗项目成本的影响。
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