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Cost of Integrating Noncommunicable Disease Screening Into Home-Based HIV Testing and Counseling in South Africa.


ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Integrated HIV-noncommunicable disease (NCD) services have the potential to avert death and disability but require data on program costs to assess the impact of integrated services on affordability. METHODS:We estimated the incremental costs of NCD screening as part of home-based HIV testing and counseling (HTC) and referral to care in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. All adults in the households were offered integrated HIV-NCD screening (for HIV, diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, depression, tobacco, and alcohol use), counseling, and linkage to care. We conducted comprehensive program microcosting including ingredient-based and activity-based costing, staff interviews, and time assessment studies. Sensitivity analyses varied cost inputs and screening efficiency. RESULTS:Integrating all-inclusive NCD screening as part of home-based HTC in a high HIV prevalence setting increased program costs by $3.95 (42%) per person screened (from $9.36 to $13.31 per person). Integrated NCD screening, excluding point-of-care cholesterol testing, increased program costs by $2.24 (24%). Furthermore, NCD screening integrated into HTC services reduced the number of persons tested by 15%-20% per day. CONCLUSIONS:Integrated HIV-NCD screening has the potential to efficiently use resources compared with stand-alone services. Although all-inclusive NCD screening could increase the incremental cost per person screened for integrated HIV-NCD services over 40%, a less costly lipid assay or targeted screening would result in a modest increase in costs with the potential to avert NCD death and disability. Our analysis highlights the need for implementation science studies to estimate the cost-effectiveness of integrated HIV-NCD screening and linkage per disability-adjusted life year and death averted.

SUBMITTER: Golovaty I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6037552 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cost of Integrating Noncommunicable Disease Screening Into Home-Based HIV Testing and Counseling in South Africa.

Golovaty Ilya I   Sharma Monisha M   Van Heerden Alastair A   van Rooyen Heidi H   Baeten Jared M JM   Celum Connie C   Barnabas Ruanne V RV  

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 20180801 5


<h4>Introduction</h4>Integrated HIV-noncommunicable disease (NCD) services have the potential to avert death and disability but require data on program costs to assess the impact of integrated services on affordability.<h4>Methods</h4>We estimated the incremental costs of NCD screening as part of home-based HIV testing and counseling (HTC) and referral to care in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. All adults in the households were offered integrated HIV-NCD screening (for HIV, diabetes, hypertension,  ...[more]

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