Costs included all recurrent costs (personnel costs, project building and operating expenses, travel expenses, STI supplies, monitoring costs, information education & communication costs, training costs, condom supplies and indirect expenses) and capital costs (buildings, equipment, furniture, vehicles, initial training, insurance and deposits, and start-up costs).
Data on the HIV prevention services provided by these programmes, and the economic cost of the programmes including personnel, recurrent goods, recurrent services, capital goods and office space rentals, were documented from written records and interviews of programme staff by trained investigators using procedures described previous that included quality control [ 4- 10].
Types of inputs include personnel, recurrent goods, capital goods, and services.
Costs for personnel, recurrent supplies, operating costs, and capital will be summed for the year of observation for each intervention.
The recurrent screening of personnel for HCV may reveal HCV infections caused by unreported needlestick injuries and non-occupational sources.
As discussed, recurrent cost and personnel cost among them account for more than 70%% of the total cost of ANC provision.
The ORPHEA instruments were designed to assemble five categories of costs: personnel, recurrent inputs and services, capital, and training and supervision.
The recurrent items included personnel (salaries and benefits of surveillance officers, data managers, physicians, nurses, etc)., rent (rent, utilities, operation, and maintenance), office and laboratory supplies, transportation, public awareness campaigns and short-term training.
Total costs were obtained for inpatients and outpatients, separately adding all the costs (capital, recurrent, building rent, personnel, supervision, training, and supplies), and unit costs for inpatient, outpatient and cost per patient were estimated.
