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Table 2 Parameters and ranges for analysis

From: Programmes for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV infection transmission have made progress in Yunnan Province, China, from 2006 to 2015: a cost effective and cost-benefit evaluation

Variable

Base

low

high

source

Mother-to-Child transmission rate (%)

 Pre-PMTCT era

34.80

20.00

45.00

surveillance data; [1]

Pro-PMTCT era

 2006

8.78

surveillance data

 2007

11.36

surveillance data

 2008

6.73

surveillance data

 2009

8.62

surveillance data

 2010

6.49

surveillance data

 2011

4.47

surveillance data

 2012

4.36

surveillance data

 2013

4.19

surveillance data

 2014

3.16

surveillance data

 2015

3.13

surveillance data

Total number of HIV-infected pregnant women in the particular years

 2006

923

  

surveillance data

 2007

1043

  

surveillance data

 2008

1236

  

surveillance data

 2009

1702

  

surveillance data

 2010

1723

  

surveillance data

 2011

1867

  

surveillance data

 2012

1940

  

surveillance data

 2013

1904

  

surveillance data

 2014

2045

  

surveillance data

 2015

2011

  

surveillance data

 2006–2015

16,394

  

surveillance data

Health Utility

 General population

1.00

 

 Patient with HIV

0.74

[24]

 Average life expantancy (Yunnan Province, 2015)

70.50

[26]

 Cost(2016,US$)

   

[27]

 ART per person per year

2947.94

 

 Regular follow-up and testing per person per year

94.46

 

 Uptoward effect treatment per person per year

287.74

 

 Opportunistic infection per person per year

231.30

 

 Total direct cost per year per person

3561.44

 

 Coefficient for direct cost of infant:adult

1.75:1

   

 Total direct cost per year per infant

6232.51

 

 Life expentancy of newborn of HIV with treatment

28.79

14.23

69.40

[25, 39, 40]

 Coefficient for unemployment rate of HIV positive:general

5:1

  

[30,31,32]

 Average unemployment rate in China

4.10%

  

[33]

 GDP per capita in 2015 ($US)

4222.66

[36]

 Annual rate of growth of GDP per capita

8.50%

6.50%

12.10%

[36, 38]

 Discount rate

3.00%

0.00%

5.00%

[22, 23]