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Global Health Cost Consortium

The Global Health Cost Consortium (GHCC) was launched in January 2016 to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of HIV and TB prevention and treatment. The cost consortium will thus drive ever-greater value for money of investments to tackle HIV and TB in low and middle-income countries. The consortium was led by the University of Washington (UW) and included teams at Avenir Health, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health (INSP), and the University of Cape Town, South Africa (UCT). These partners are leaders in large-scale HIV and TB cost studies and in the development of models designed to translate economic and epidemiologic data to inform policies and programs. GHCC will improve the availability, quality, timing, and thus the policy-relevance of cost information.   The GHCC has published the Reference Case for Estimating the Costs of Global Health Services and Interventions and created a web-based Unit Cost Study Repository with over 2,898 unit costs for HIV and TB for 57 countries from 387 studies.  The Unit Cost Study Repository is intended to support the costing of national strategies, assist in Global Fund applications, identify opportunities for sustainability, and be used as an input to economic evaluations. It is organized around interventions categorized by disease and intervention class (e.g., Prevention) consistent with intervention typologies from partners at UNAIDS, WHO, the Global Fund, and PEPFAR. Users can filter data by key characteristics of the intervention (e.g. country, delivery platform, cost perspective) to display relevant data using various data visualizations. The underlying data can be exported in a number of different formats.

The African Journal of AIDS Research: Vol 18, No 4 (November 2019) published the following articles reflecting the work from the UW Global Health Cost Consortium:

Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, Lori A Bollinger, Lily Alexander, Drew B Cameron, Lauren N Carroll, Lucy Cunnama, Gabriela B Gomez, Carol Levin, Elliot Marseille, Mohamed Mustafa Diab, Mariana Siapka, Edina Sinanovic, Anna Vassall & James G Kahn (2019) Developing the Global Health Cost Consortium Unit Cost Study Repository for HIV and TB: methodology and lessons learned, African Journal of AIDS Research, 18:4, 263-276, DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1680398

Drew B Cameron, Mohamed Mustafa Diab, Lauren N Carroll, Lori A Bollinger, Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, Carol Levin, Benjamin Herzel, Elliot Marseille, Lily Alexander, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Carlos Pineda-Antunez, Diego Cerecero-García, Gabriela B Gomez, William H Dow & James G Kahn (2019) The state of costing research for HIV interventions in sub-Saharan Africa, African Journal of AIDS Research, 18:4, 277-288, DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1679200

Carlos Pineda-Antunez, Gisela Martinez-Silva, Diego Cerecero-Garcia, Lily Alexander, Drew B Cameron, Chris Chiwevu, Lalit Dandona, Carol Dayo Obure, Steven Forsythe, Van Thu Nguyen, Stella Settumba, Michel Tchuenche, Hoang Van Minh, James G Kahn, Gabriela Gomez, Sedona Sweeney, Anna Vassall, Lori Bollinger, Carol Levin & Sergio Bautista-Arredondo (2019) Meta-analysis of average costs of HIV testing and counselling and voluntary medical male circumcision across thirteen countries, African Journal of AIDS Research, 18:4, 341-349, DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1679850

Diego Cerecero-García, Carlos Pineda-Antunez, Lily Alexander, Drew Cameron, Gisela Martinez-Silva, Carol Dayo Obure, Elliot Marseille, Lung Vu, James G Kahn, Anna Vassall, Gabriela Gomez, Lori Bollinger, Carol Levin & Sergio Bautista-Arredondo (2019) A meta-analysis approach for estimating average unit costs for ART using pooled facility-level primary data from African countries, African Journal of AIDS Research, 18:4, 297-305, DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1688362

To learn more, visit the GHCC website https://ghcosting.org/