Chapter 4: Financing Elimination

James G. Kahn, Suprotik Basu, Colin Boyle, Michelle S. Hsiang, Dean T. Jamison, Cara Smith-Gueye, Lori Spivey Baker

Chapter 4, Financing Elimination, reviews the cost-effectiveness of elimination as compared with sustained control and then presents the costs of selected elimination programs as examples. It evaluates four innovative financing mechanisms and opportunities that must support elimination. Case studies from Swaziland and two provinces in China are provided.