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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Research

Trypanosomiasis Control, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1993–2003

Pascal Lutumba*†, Jo Robays†, Constantin Miaka mia Bilenge*, Victor Kande Betu Ku Mesu*, Didier Molisho‡, Johan Declercq§, Wim Van der Veken§, Filip Meheus¶, Jean Jannin#, and Marleen Boelaert†Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; †Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; ‡Fonds Médical Tropical, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; §Coopération Technique Belge, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; ¶Institute of Development Policy and Management, Antwerp, Belgium; #World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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Table 3

Average expense per examined person and average cost per case detected and treated (converted to constant 1998 US$) in active case finding*

1993–1997 1998–2003
No. screened in population at risk 5,003,477 10,659,210
No. HAT cases detected and treated† 41,500 55,500
Average expenditure per case screened (US$) 1.30 1.57
Average expenditure per case detected and treated (US$) 156.9 301.2

*HAT, human African trypanosomiasis.
†Takes into account only active case finding by mobile teams and the assumption of a treatment rate of 100%.

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