Benchmarking the Cost per Person of Mass Treatment for Selected Neglected Tropical Diseases: An Approach Based on Literature Review and Meta-regression with Web-Based Software Application.

• Main Authors: Christopher Fitzpatrick (Author), Fiona M Fleming (Author), Matthew Madin-Warburton (Author), Timm Schneider (Author), Filip Meheus (Author), Kingsley Asiedu (Author), Anthony W Solomon (Author), Antonio Montresor (Author), Gautam Biswas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Advocacy around mass treatment for the elimination of selected Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) has typically put the cost per person treated at less than US$ 0.50. Whilst useful for advocacy, the focus on a single number misrepresents the complexity of delivering "free" donated medicine...