Global Health Cost Consortium
2024
The Global Health Cost Consortium (GHCC) is a new three-year initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide decision-makers with improved resources to estimate the costs of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) programs.
GHCC’s goal is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of HIV and TB prevention and treatment, and drive greater value for money of investments to tackle HIV and TB in low and middle-income countries, by improving the availability, quality, timing, and the policy-relevance of cost information. The consortium will extract, collate and analyze existing cost data sets in order to provide accessible cost estimates of HIV and TB services; identify data gaps; and produce standards, guidance and methods for high quality and efficient cost data collection.
A publicly accessible website provides cost data adapted to specific settings, as well as resources to improve cost data over time, and includes a reference case for estimating the costs of global health services and interventions, and a unit cost study repository that houses HIV and TB intervention unit costs and cost breakdowns from published and grey literature. It can be searched by intervention category, primary population, region, country, sector, income level, HIV investment category framework, and HIV epidemic category. Primary data for costing studies conducted by the consortium are made available as well.
Source:
Global Health Cost Consortium. https://ghcosting.org