Manual for Costing HIV Facilities and Services

As part of scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services within the context of universal access, countries need up-to-date and robust strategic information. This information is required to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency, equity and acceptability of the HIV services. Information on the efficiency of HIV services requires up-to-date and robust information on the cost and cost–effectiveness of these services. The way to obtain information on cost is to perform a costing study.

The aim of this manual is to provide a simple guide on the process of gathering data to calculate the cost of HIV services provided at health facilities.