An integrated health delivery platform, targeting soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and canine mediated human rabies, results in cost savings and increased breadth of treatment for STH in remote communities in Tanzania

Table 1 Fixed and variable costs, by Arm and clinic type

Arm	Arm A			Arm B	Arm C
Clinic	MDA	MDRV	Both	MDA	MDRV
Fixed Costs	3640	8000	11,640	3900	8584
Variable Costs	169	484	653	115	434
Total costs	3808	8484	12,292	4015	9018

“Fixed costs” include i) event-level fixed costs not attributable to clinics, which were allocated equally across all events, and ii) event-level fixed costs attributable to either clinic type (MDA or MDRV), which were attributed equally across all rabies or deworming events, respectively. Because there were two clinics for each Arm A event, the event-level fixed costs not attributable to clinics were allocated equally across both clinics in Arm A and were therefore half that allocated to Arm B or C. Variable costs per clinic were dose-specific costs multiplied by the number of doses delivered. Costs in 2016 US dollars

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