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Out-of-pocket Expenses and Time Spent on Clinic Visits Among HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Users and Other Clinic Attendees in Eswatini

User costs constitute a barrier to the uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), but their magnitude appears rarely assessed. In this prospective observational study, we assessed self-reported out-of-pocket expenses (OOPE) and time spent on clinic visits during a PrEP demonstration project in E...

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Autores principales: Kohler, Stefan, Dalal, Shona, Hettema, Anita, Matse, Sindy, Bärnighausen, Till, Paul, Nicolas
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Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9551250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36219271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03859-3
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author Kohler, Stefan
Dalal, Shona
Hettema, Anita
Matse, Sindy
Bärnighausen, Till
Paul, Nicolas
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description User costs constitute a barrier to the uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), but their magnitude appears rarely assessed. In this prospective observational study, we assessed self-reported out-of-pocket expenses (OOPE) and time spent on clinic visits during a PrEP demonstration project in Eswatini. At six public primary care clinics, 240 PrEP users and other clinic attendees were interviewed after a clinic visit. Among the 79.2% of clinic attendees reporting any medical OOPE (e.g., expenses for consultations or drugs) and/or non-medical OOPE (e.g., expenses for transport, food, or phone use), the median total OOPE was $1.36 (IQR 0.91–1.96). Non-medical OOPE occurred mostly due to transport expenses. The median travel time for a clinic visit was 1.0 h (IQR 0.67–2.0). The median time spent in the clinic was 2.0 h (IQR 1.15–3.0). The median opportunity cost of a clinic visit was $7.54 (IQR 5.42–11) when valuing time spent on a clinic visit with Eswatini’s per-capita gross domestic product. Our findings can guide measures to reduce the user costs of PrEP in Eswatini and other contexts in which oral PrEP is provided through health care facilities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10461-022-03859-3.
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spelling pubmed-95512502022-10-11 Out-of-pocket Expenses and Time Spent on Clinic Visits Among HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Users and Other Clinic Attendees in Eswatini Kohler, Stefan Dalal, Shona Hettema, Anita Matse, Sindy Bärnighausen, Till Paul, Nicolas AIDS Behav Original Paper User costs constitute a barrier to the uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), but their magnitude appears rarely assessed. In this prospective observational study, we assessed self-reported out-of-pocket expenses (OOPE) and time spent on clinic visits during a PrEP demonstration project in Eswatini. At six public primary care clinics, 240 PrEP users and other clinic attendees were interviewed after a clinic visit. Among the 79.2% of clinic attendees reporting any medical OOPE (e.g., expenses for consultations or drugs) and/or non-medical OOPE (e.g., expenses for transport, food, or phone use), the median total OOPE was $1.36 (IQR 0.91–1.96). Non-medical OOPE occurred mostly due to transport expenses. The median travel time for a clinic visit was 1.0 h (IQR 0.67–2.0). The median time spent in the clinic was 2.0 h (IQR 1.15–3.0). The median opportunity cost of a clinic visit was $7.54 (IQR 5.42–11) when valuing time spent on a clinic visit with Eswatini’s per-capita gross domestic product. Our findings can guide measures to reduce the user costs of PrEP in Eswatini and other contexts in which oral PrEP is provided through health care facilities. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10461-022-03859-3. Springer US 2022-10-11 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9551250/ /pubmed/36219271 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03859-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_full_unstemmed Out-of-pocket Expenses and Time Spent on Clinic Visits Among HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Users and Other Clinic Attendees in Eswatini
title_short Out-of-pocket Expenses and Time Spent on Clinic Visits Among HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Users and Other Clinic Attendees in Eswatini
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topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9551250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36219271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03859-3
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