01627nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001100001500042700001300057700001800070700001100088700001400099700001500113700001400128700001500142700001400157700001600171245015400187250001500341300001100356490000700367520096500374020004601339       2011                            d1 aFerrari G.1 aWatts C.1 aHargreaves J.1 aKim J.1 aPhetla G.1 aMorison L.1 aPorter J.1 aBarnett T.1 aPronyk P.1 aJan Stephen00aEconomic evaluation of a combined microfinance and gender training intervention for the prevention of intimate partner violence in rural South Africa  a2010/10/27  a366-720 v263 a<p>
OBJECTIVE: Assess the cost-effectiveness of an intervention combining microfinance with gender and HIV training for the prevention of intimate partner violence (IPV) in South Africa. METHODS: We performed a cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a cluster-randomized trial. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of the intervention in both the trial and initial scale-up phase. RESULTS: We estimated the cost per DALY gained as US$7688 for the trial phase and US$2307 for the initial scale-up. The findings were sensitive to the statistical uncertainty in effect estimates but otherwise robust to other key assumptions employed in the analysis. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that this combined economic and health intervention was cost-effective in its trial phase and highly cost-effective in scale-up. These estimates are probably conservative, as they do not include the health and development benefits of the intervention beyond IPV reduction.
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