Efficient and equitable HIV prevention: A case study of male circumcision in South Africa

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Stéphane Verguet¹ 

[1] Department of Global Health, University of Washington, 325 9th Avenue, Box 359931, Seattle, WA, 98104, USA

关键词: Male circumcision;    HIV prevention;    Equity;    Efficiency;   

Others  :  810794
DOI  :  10.1186/1478-7547-11-1

 received in 2011-08-02, accepted in 2012-11-28,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

We determine efficient, equitable and mixed efficient-equitable allocations of a male circumcision (MC) intervention reducing female to male HIV transmission in South Africa (SA), as a case study of an efficiency-equity framework for resource allocation in HIV prevention.

Methods

We present a mathematical model developed with epidemiological and cost data from the nine provinces of SA. The hypothetical one-year-long MC intervention with a budget of US$ 10 million targeted adult men 15–49 years of age in SA. The intervention was evaluated according to two criteria: an efficiency criterion, which focused on maximizing the number of HIV infections averted by the intervention, and an equity criterion (defined geographically), which focused on maximizing the chance that each male adult individual had access to the intervention regardless of his province.

Results

A purely efficient intervention would prevent 4,008 HIV infections over a year. In the meantime, a purely equitable intervention would avert 3,198 infections, which represents a 20% reduction in infection outcome as compared to the purely efficient scenario. A half efficient-half equitable scenario would prevent 3,749 infections, that is, a 6% reduction in infection outcome as compared to the purely efficient scenario.

Conclusions

This paper provides a framework for resource allocation in the health sector which incorporates a simple equity metric in addition to efficiency. In the specific context of SA with a MC intervention for the prevention of HIV, incorporation of geographical equity only slightly reduces the overall efficiency of the intervention.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Verguet; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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