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. 2014 Dec 4:13:477.
doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-477.

Cost-effectiveness of larviciding for urban malaria control in Tanzania

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Marcia C Castro  1
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Cost-effectiveness of larviciding for urban malaria control in Tanzania

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux et al. Malar J. .

Abstract

Background: Larviciding for malaria control can contribute to an Integrated Vector Management (IVM) approach. This intervention is currently supported in settings where breeding habitats are 'few, fixed, and findable', such as urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa, but the knowledge base regarding the cost-effectiveness of larviciding is non-existent.

Methods: Programme costs and effectiveness data were collected from the Dar es Salaam Urban Malaria Control Programme in Tanzania. Cost-effectiveness ratios (CER) were estimated from the provider and societal perspectives for standard indicators using different malaria transmission scenarios.

Results: CER for microbial larviciding were highly dependent on the assumed baseline malaria incidence rates. Using the societal perspective, net CER were estimated (in 2012 US dollars) at $43 (95% uncertainty intervals [UI]: $15-181) per disability-adjusted life year averted (DALY) when malaria incidence was 902 infections per 1,000 individuals, increasing to $545 (95% UI: $337-1,558) per DALY at an incidence of 122 per 1,000. Larviciding was shown to be cost-effective in Tanzania for incidences as low as 40 infections per 1,000 people per year.

Conclusion: This is believed to be the first study to estimate the cost-effectiveness of larviciding for urban malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa. The results support the use of larviciding as a cost-effective intervention in urban areas and managers of national malaria control programme should consider this intervention as part of an IVM approach.

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Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (societal perspective) for larviciding with the custom granule and water dispersible formulations under the three malaria transmission scenarios.
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Figure 2
Net cost-effectiveness of larviciding (custom granule formulation) per disability-adjusted life years as a function of malaria incidence for the provider and societal perspectives. The very cost-effective threshold is defined as a cost-effectiveness ratio below the per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Tanzania ($599 USD), and the cost-effective threshold to three times the per capita GDP.
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