[EQ] Economic Benefit of Tuberculosis Control

Economic Benefit of Tuberculosis Control

 

Ramanan Laxminarayan, Resources for the Future

Eili Klein, Resources for the Future

Christopher Dye, World Health Organization

Katherine Floyd, World Health Organization

Sarah Darley, Resources for the Future

Olusoji Adeyi, The World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper 4295 - This study was commissioned by the World Bank on behalf of the Stop TB Partnership

and financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2007

 

Available online PDF [59p.] at:
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/01/000158349_20070801103922/Rendered/PDF/wps4295.pdf

 

“…….Tuberculosis is the most important infectious cause of adult deaths after HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries. This paper evaluates the economic benefits of extending the World Health Organization’s DOTS Strategy (a multi-component approach that includes directly observed treatment, short course chemotherapy and several other components) as proposed in the Global Plan to Stop TB, 2006-2015.

The authors use a model-based approach that combines epidemiological projections of averted mortality and economic benefits measured using value of statistical life for the Sub-Saharan Africa region and the 22 high-burden, tuberculosis-endemic countries in the world….”

 

 

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