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Table 3
Mean annual costs (in 2002 US $) of all health-related surveillance and IDSR per category of resources in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Eritrea
Health structure level	Cost category	Burkina Faso§		Mali		Eritrea

		All health-related surveillance	IDSR	All health-related surveillance	IDSR	All health-related surveillance	IDSR

Region	Personnel	15,275	3,568	25,951	11,353	82,589	32,622
	Transport	13,015	4,771	18,226	7,292	4,137	3,309
	Office	13,102	5,471	31,362	10,889	67,032	27,643
	Media	1,664	238	4,515	1,481	0	0
	Treatment	55,964^§	12,391^§	14,007	3,594	30,789	3,506
	Laboratory	27,275^§	5,032^§	9,156	2,301	12,759	1,726
	Capital	11,271	4,429	8,368	2,663	8,026	1,114

District	Personnel	7,735	1,686	18,484	7,341	7,488	3,541
	Transport	10,712	2,159	16,519	2,233	5,490	1,098
	Office	7,855	1,807	5,642	1,718	7,141	5,358
	Media	527	116	677	169	0	0
	Treatment	13,571^§	2,986^§	3,409	369	2,029	350
	Laboratory	6,577^§	1,209^§	322	79	513	100
	Capital	4,318	826	6,301	2,032	5,561	1,540

Primary^¶health	Personnel	1,839	478	2,752	728	1,974,579	191,584
care center	Transport	627	166	274	53	42,804	42,043
	Office	993	186	270	49	359,817	42,988
	Media	233	42	14	3	36,292	35,738
	Treatment	591^§	131^§	1632	182	756,914	123,547
	Laboratory	288^§	53^§	0	0	345,554	56,878
	Capital	624	184	909	167	119,475	16,204

§ In Burkina Faso, laboratory and treatment costs were calculated using the average annual per capita costs of laboratory and treatment for Eritrea and Mali ¶ In Eritrea, data were for the central Ministry level (primary health care center was not included in the study).
Somda et al. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2009 7:1 doi:10.1186/1478-7547-7-1

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