From Trial Intervention to Scale-Up: Costs of an Adolescent Sexual Health Program in Mwanza, Tanzania

@article{TerrisPrestholt2006FromTI,
  title={From Trial Intervention to Scale-Up: Costs of an Adolescent Sexual Health Program in Mwanza, Tanzania},
  author={Fern Terris-Prestholt and Lilani Kumaranayake and Angela I N Obasi and Bernadette Cleophas-Mazige and Maende Makokha and Jim Todd and David A Ross and Richard J. Hayes},
  journal={Sexually Transmitted Diseases},
  year={2006},
  volume={33},
  pages={S133-S139}
}
Objective: To estimate annual costs of a multifaceted adolescent sexual health intervention in Mwanza, Tanzania, by input (capital and recurrent), component (in-school, community activities, youth-friendly health services, condom distribution), and phase (development, startup, trial implementation, scale-up). Study Design: Financial and economic providers’ costs and intervention outputs were collected to estimate annual total and unit costs (1999–2001). The incremental financial budget projects… 
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