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Dr Tanya Applegate

 

MENJAGA – long term costs / health outcomes

Status

Underway

Year

2023

 

Named PI/Co-PI

Qinglu Cheng

Other investigators

Virginia Wiseman

Lead EMCR

Qinglu Cheng

# of EMCRs

1

Regional setting

LMIC / Asia- Pacific

Discipline

Health Economics

The Problem

Barriers to the implementation of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B testing in antenatal services in Indonesia have been identified, including a lack of standard operating procedures at the clinic level.

The Solution

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is an approach to develop healthcare providers’ capacity to improve quality of care processes and improve adherence to clinical guidelines. The MENJAGA study is the first cluster-randomized trial to evaluate a multi-faceted CQI to improve antenatal testing and treatment of HIV/syphilis/hepatitis B among public and private providers in Indonesia. This economic evaluation comparing CQI interventions versus standard of care will explore the long-term cost-effectiveness using a decision analytic model and incorporate equity considerations with a distributional cost-effectiveness analysis.