2021
Moving away from the "unit cost". Predicting country-specific average cost curves of VMMC services accounting for variations in service delivery platforms in sub-Saharan Africa
Bautista-Arredondo S, Pineda-Antunez C, Cerecero-Garcia D, Cameron DB, Alexander L, Chiwevu C, Forsythe S, Tchuenche M, Dow WH, Kahn J, Gomez GB, Vassall A, Bollinger LA, Levin C. Moving away from the "unit cost". Predicting country-specific average cost curves of VMMC services accounting for variations in service delivery platforms in sub-Saharan Africa. PLOS ONE 2021, 16: e0249076. PMID: 33886576, PMCID: PMC8062035, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249076.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUnit costCost curvesAverage cost curveCost variationMean unit costEconomies of scaleUnit cost curvesKey cost driversAverage unit costHigh unit costEconometric modelEfficiency implicationsSub-Saharan AfricaPrivate ownershipFunding decisionsSub-Saharan countriesEmpirical dataPolicy makersSignificant determinantsCost estimatesCost studiesAverage costCost driversCountriesAvailability of units
2020
Cost of tuberculosis treatment in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-regression
Siapka M, Vassall A, Cunnama L, Pineda C, Cerecero D, Sweeney S, Bautista-Arredondo S, Bollinger L, Cameron D, Levin C, Gomez GB. Cost of tuberculosis treatment in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-regression. The International Journal Of Tuberculosis And Lung Disease 2020, 24: 802-810. PMID: 32912385, DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.19.0694.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMiddle-income countriesCost estimatesMonths of treatmentGross domestic productUpper middle-income countriesTreatment cost estimatesTB treatmentDomestic productTuberculosis treatmentMedian costSystematic reviewPriority settingMulti-level regression modelsUncertainty intervalsUnit costCost dataCost variationTreatmentDelivery modeGrey literatureCountriesPrimary dataRegression modelsCostHigh-quality primary data