Optimal allocation of limited test-and-treat resources in the Kinshasa periphery
How should a constrained test-and-treat budget be allocated across Kinshasa-periphery health zones to maximise averted morbidity?
Ministry · Ministère de la Santé (RDC) / PNLP
- Difficulty
- MSc
- Timeline
- 9 months
- Methods
- 3 listed
- Budget ask
- USD 2,000
Why it matters
The Programme National de Lutte contre le Paludisme operates under tight budget constraints. The Kinshasa periphery is heterogeneous in transmission intensity, access, and existing supply — naive equal-allocation underperforms. A decision model with locally-relevant constraints would directly inform the 2026 operational plan.
The question
Given the 2026 test-and-treat operational budget and known transmission heterogeneity across Kinshasa-periphery zones de santé, what allocation minimises expected morbidity over a 12-month horizon?
Why now
Constrained budgets are the norm, not the exception. Tools that translate a budget envelope into an action plan are scarce in French-language operational settings. This dossier is also the platform’s Francophone test — the dossier publishes bilingually on v1.0.
Methods landscape (sketch)
A mixed-integer optimisation on a decision graph with transmission-intensity covariates from MAP, supply data from the PNLP, and access data from the Kinshasa health-zone maps. Stochastic constraint on actual delivery.
Full dossier with starter pack, data sources, supervisor and adviser publishes on v0.1. Working-modeller adviser ask out to MAP.
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