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Table 5 Nipah prevention intervention implementation cost covering 30 Nipah-affected districts with at least one Nipah spillover, Bangladesh

From: A large-scale behavior change intervention to prevent Nipah transmission in Bangladesh: components and costs

Intervention element

NiV spillover 6 or more (total 56 spillover)

NiV spillover 2–5 (total 50 spillover)

NiV spillover 1 (total 11 spillover)

Nipah spillover all (total 117 spillover)

Component

Description

6 districts, consisting of 47 sub-districts with a rural population of 2,434,793

13 districts, consisting of 90 sub-districts with a rural population of 4,947,566

11 districts consisting of 76 sub-districts with a rural population of 4,276,269

30 districts with 213 sub-districts with a rural population of 11,658,628

Cost (US$)

Cost (US$)

Cost (US$)

Total cost (US$)

TV public service announcement

 Cable operator cost

2 operators per sub district at $60 each

$5640

$10,800

$9120

 

 DVD

2 per cable operators at $1 per DVD

$188

$360

$304

 

 Total cost of TV public service announcement

 

$5828

$11,160

$9424

$26,412

Poster

 Printing cost

10 posters per every 500 households at $0.11 per unit

$5357

$10,885

$9408

$25,650

 Affixing cost

10 posters per every 500 households at $.30 per unit

$14,610

$29,685

$25,659

$69,954

 Total cost of poster

 

$19,967

$40,570

$35,067

$95,604

NGO training

 Staff training

Approximately 1 NGO to cover two sub-districts, 3 staff from one NGO to train a maximum of 50 staff per training session, at $2850 per training session

$5700

$8550

$8550

 

 Training manuals

60 training manuals per training session at $0.28 per unit

$34

$50

$50

 

 Total cost of NGO training

 

$5734

$8660

$8660

$23,054

Meeting cost

 Meetings

1 opinion leader and 1 community meeting per 500 households at $50 per meeting

$487,000

$989,500

$855,300

 

 Calendars

10 per opinion leader meeting at $0.15 per unit

$7305

$14,843

$12,830

 

 Total cost of meetings

 

$494,305

$1,004,343

$898,130

$2,396,778

Intervention monitoring cost

 TV public service announcement monitoring

10 tea stalls per district at $1.3 per tea stall

$611

$1170

$988

 

 Meeting monitoring

1 person in 1 district at $609 per month, at $15 (1200 taka) per diem, at $24 (2000 taka) transport per day, $1.2 (100 taka) per day phone bill

$9665

$20,942

$17,718

 

 Total cost of intervention monitoring

 

$10,276

$22,112

$18,706

$51,094

 Total cost with TV public service announcement, poster, meeting and monitoring for a “no raw sap” intervention

 

$536,110

$1,086,845

$969,987

$2,592,942

Gachhi traininga

 Training

3 gachhis per 500 households at $7.6 per gachhi training

$111,036

$225,606

$195,008

 

 Incentive

80% of gachhis at $5.8 per sweatshirt

$67,790

$137,738

$119,057

 

 Total cost of gachhi training

 

$178,826

$363,344

$314,065

$856,235

Total with TV public service announcement, poster, meeting monitoring and gachhi training for an “only safe sap” intervention

 

$714,936

$1,450,189

$1,284,052

$3,449,177

 Total in Bangladeshi taka (BDT)

 

58,867,830

119,408,562

10,572,884

284,005,234

  1. aWe can get the cost of the “no raw sap” intervention excluding the cost of “gachhi training” component from the calculation