Table 1

Total economic costs and number of treatments administered through community-wide mass drug administration and school-based deworming, per country-round, in 2019 USD ($)

MetricBeninIndiaMalawi
cMDASBDcMDASBDcMDASBD
Number of treatments administered*
 Round 145 28055 95315 26649 518
 Round 237 913929855 75819 15238 64116 077
 Round 342 39857 35321 39652 122
 Round 432 52910 34357 39820 58649 70912 964
Total costs†
 Round 1106 69571 96913 854129 369
 Round 282 28722 51664 41614 08997 51223 251
 Round 399 66466 12912 79497 838
 Round 494 42225 93361 80612 763100 11224 812
Cost per treatment administered
 Round 12.361.290.912.61
 Round 22.172.421.160.742.521.45
 Round 32.351.150.601.88
 Round 42.902.511.080.622.011.91
  • Note: Dashes (–) represent situations where no data were collected. SBD was only implemented annually in Benin and Malawi, so no data were available for rounds 1 and 3.

  • *Treatments administered for cMDA include all eligible individuals who received treatment by DeWorm3 through cMDA in the intervention clusters (source: DeWorm3 MDA treatment logs). Population treated for SBD includes all children treated in schools within the DeWorm3 control clusters (source: SBD treatment logs).

  • †Total costs include both financial and opportunity costs.

  • cMDA, community-wide mass drug administration; SBD, school-based deworming.