Cost effectiveness of support with out-of-pockets costs to
prevent treatment abandonment in Malawi and sub-Saharan Africa; lessons
learnt and the way forward – a report from CANCaRe Africa
Junious Sichali1, Avi Denburg2,
Harriet Khofi3, Cecilia Mdoka1,
Deborah Nyirenda4, Yamikani
Chimalizeni3, George Chagaluka3,
Elizabeth Molyneux3, Marc Y. R.
Henrion4,5, Sumit Gupta2, Trijn
Israels1
1 Collaborative African Network for Childhood Cancer
Care and Research (CANCaRe Africa), 2Division of
Haematology/Oncology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada,3 Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS),
Blantyre, Malawi, 4 Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research
Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, 5Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Corresponding author:
Dr Trijn Israels, CANCaRe Africa, Department of Paediatrics, Kamuzu
University of Health Sciences (KuHES), Blantyre, Malawi. Email:
cancareafrica@gmail.com
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Short running title: Cost-effectiveness of treatment abandonment
prevention
Key words: childhood cancer, treatment abandonment, cost-effectiveness,
LMIC Low- and middle-income country
GICC Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer
CANCaRe Africa Collaborative African Network for Childhood Cancer Care
and Research
ALL Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
GDP Gross Domestic Product
DALY Disability Adjusted Life Year