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Family planning programmes in ten developing countries: cost effectiveness by mode of service delivery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Sallie Craig Huber  and
Philip D. Harvey
Sallie Craig Huber
Affiliation:
407 East 91st Street, New York, USA
Philip D. Harvey
Affiliation:
407 East 91st Street, New York, USA
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Summary

The cost effectiveness of various modes of family planning service delivery based on the cost per couple-year of protection (CYP) is assessed using 1984 data for 63 projects in ten countries (three each in Africa and Asia, and four in Latin America). More than 4·8 million CYPs were provided through these projects during the year studied. Programmes with the highest volume of services delivered corresponded to lowest average costs: social marketing (2·8 million CYPs) and sterilization projects (960,000 CYPs) cost about $2 per CYP, on average; highest costs were for full service clinics and community-based distribution projects ($13–14 per CYP). Costs of clinics combined with community-based distribution services fell approximately midway between these two extremes.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 267 - 277
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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