Journal article

Tanzania: costing nationwide HPV vaccine delivery using the WHO cervical cancer prevention tool

The purpose, methods, data sources and assumptions behind the World Health Organization (WHO) Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Costing (C4P) tool that was developed to assist low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with planning and costing their nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program are presented. Tanzania is presented as a case study where the WHO C4P tool was used to cost and plan the roll-out of HPV vaccines nationwide as part of the national comprehensive cervical cancer prevention and control strategy.

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2012

Journal

BMC Medicine

Volume

136

Type

Journal article

Categories

  • Service delivery

Diseases

  • HPV

Countries

  • United Republic Of Tanzania

Organisations

  • Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
  • PATH
  • World Health Organisation (WHO)

Tags

  • Planning, budgeting and financing

WHO Regions

  • African Region

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