Moving away from the "unit cost". Predicting country-specific average cost curves of VMMC services accounting for variations in service delivery platforms in sub-Saharan Africa

• Sergio Bautista-Arredondo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sbautista@insp.mx

  Affiliation Center for Health Systems Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8910-3011

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• Carlos Pineda-Antunez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Health Systems Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico

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• Diego Cerecero-Garcia,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Health Systems Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico

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• Drew B. Cameron,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5646-3894

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• Lily Alexander,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Chris Chiwevu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Consultant, Fairfax, VA, United States of America

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• Steven Forsythe,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Avenir Health, Glastonbury, CT, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4409-5991

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• Michel Tchuenche,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Avenir Health, Glastonbury, CT, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8655-6154

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• William H. Dow,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

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• James Kahn,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Gabriela B. Gomez,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Anna Vassall,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Lori A. Bollinger,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Avenir Health, Glastonbury, CT, United States of America

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• Carol Levin

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

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