Determinants of HIVST average costs at programme level
Parameters | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 | |||||
Estimate | SE | Estimate | SE | Estimate | SE | Estimate | SE | Estimate | SE | |
Constant | 3.501*** | 0.125 | 3.428*** | 0.335 | 3.135*** | 0.390 | 2.395*** | 0.405 | 3.153*** | 0.437 |
Scale (in thousands) | −1.261*** | 0.250 | −1.935*** | 0.316 | −1.889*** | 0.319 | −1.529*** | 0.314 | −1.578*** | 0.291 |
Scale∧2 (in millions) | 0.388*** | 0.132 | 0.684*** | 0.149 | 0.656*** | 0.150 | 0.492*** | 0.146 | 0.553*** | 0.137 |
Scale∧3 (in billions) | −0.036** | 0.016 | −0.068*** | 0.018 | −0.064*** | 0.018 | −0.046*** | 0.017 | −0.056*** | 0.016 |
Campaign-style | 0.364*** | 0.101 | 0.392*** | 0.104 | 0.169 | 0.108 | 0.174* | 0.100 | ||
Efficiency | 0.050 | 0.095 | 0.071 | 0.093 | 0.171* | 0.095 | −0.049 | 0.109 | ||
% HIVST kits distributed to men | 0.533** | 0.246 | 0.737*** | 0.228 | 0.511** | 0.221 | ||||
% HIVST kits distributed to people who never tested for HIV | −0.557 | 0.769 | −1.236* | 0.722 | −0.097 | 0.748 | ||||
Distance (in thousands) | 1.062*** | 0.279 | 0.603** | 0.292 | ||||||
Positivity | 0.071 | 0.352 | 0.177 | 0.327 | ||||||
HTS average cost | −0.001 | 0.006 | −0.004 | 0.006 | ||||||
Price_level (in thousands) | 0.139*** | 0.041 | ||||||||
No. of observations | 74 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 74 | |||||
R2 | 0.51 | 0.63 | 0.66 | 0.74 | 0.78 | |||||
R2 adjusted | 0.49 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.69 | 0.74 |
***P<0.01, **p<0.05, *p<0.10.
HIVST, HIV self-testing; SE, Standard error.