Approximating Vaccine Delivery Costs to Reach Zero-Dose Children

Portnoy, A., Clarke-Deelder, E., Holroyd, T. A., Hogan, D. R., & Mengistu, T. (2025). Approximating Vaccine Delivery Costs to Reach Zero-Dose Children: A Bayesian Meta-Regression Analysis. medRxiv.

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Preprint

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2025

DOI

10.1101/2025.10.05.25337360

DOI registrant

openRxiv

Link

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.05.25337360

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• Last Mile Delivery
  • The cost ratio is stark: the cost per vaccinated child in a remote district vastly exceeds the dose cost, exactly as the model predicts

    This sourceEstimates a mean economic delivery cost of roughly $8.65 per dose and ~$112 to fully immunize a hard-to-reach 'zero-dose' child — far exceeding the dose cost (~$1.87/dose in routine settings) — establishing that outreach/cold-chain/staff delivery dominates cost in remote districts.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract reports $8.65 delivery cost per dose and $112.45 per fully immunized zero-dose child across 129 LMICs, but gives no vaccine dose price and no confirmation of any external model's prediction.

    “For 2024, the predicted mean economic cost per dose was $8.65 (95% credible interval $2.33–23.71), averaged across all 129 LMICs. To fully immunize a zero-dose child with 13 recommended vaccinations, the equivalent cost estimate was $112.45 ($30.29–308.23).”

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