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Benefits consist of treatment costs averted, both for children and adults.
The adult treatment cost savings are based on secondary infections averted through changed behavior due to the counseling process. User fees are also included in this model. A test case for Panama showed that the intervention could be highly cost-effective. More reasonable assumptions, including government provision of formula, resulted in a benefit-cost ratio of 1.16. A comparison of the two models was then attempted by inserting the assumptions of the South Africa model into this model.