Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis

MJA Reid, N Arinaminpathy, A Bloom, BR Bloom… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Tuberculosis can be treated, prevented, and cured. Rapid, sustained
declines in tuberculosis deaths in many countries during the past 50 years provide …

Financial burden for tuberculosis patients in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

T Tanimura, E Jaramillo, D Weil… - European …, 2014 - publications.ersnet.org
In order to inform the development of appropriate strategies to improve financial risk
protection, we conducted a systematic literature review of the financial burden of …

Defining catastrophic costs and comparing their importance for adverse tuberculosis outcome with multi-drug resistance: a prospective cohort study, Peru

T Wingfield, D Boccia, M Tovar, A Gavino… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Even when tuberculosis (TB) treatment is free, hidden costs incurred by patients
and their households (TB-affected households) may worsen poverty and health. Extreme TB …

Costs to health services and the patient of treating tuberculosis: a systematic literature review

YV Laurence, UK Griffiths, A Vassall - Pharmacoeconomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Novel tuberculosis (TB) drugs and the need to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis
(DR-TB) are likely to bring about substantial transformations in TB treatment in coming …

Beyond UHC: monitoring health and social protection coverage in the context of tuberculosis care and prevention

K Lönnroth, P Glaziou, D Weil, K Floyd, M Uplekar… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health problem. In all societies, the disease
affects the poorest individuals the worst. A new post-2015 global TB strategy has been …

Catastrophic total costs in tuberculosis-affected households and their determinants since Indonesia's implementation of universal health coverage

A Fuady, TAJ Houweling, M Mansyur… - Infectious diseases of …, 2018 - mednexus.org
Background: As well as imposing an economic burden on affected households, the high
costs related to tuberculosis (TB) can create access and adherence barriers. This highlights …

Measuring catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in Viet Nam

NV Nhung, NB Hoa, NT Anh, LT Anh… - … of Tuberculosis and …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
INTRODUCTION: Progress towards ending tuberculosis (TB) in Viet Nam includes
monitoring the costs borne by patients through periodic facility-based surveys. OBJECTIVE …

Financial burden of HIV and TB among patients in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional survey

LF Assebe, EK Negussie, A Jbaily, MTT Tolla… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are major global health threats and can result in
household financial hardships. Here, we aim to estimate the household economic burden …

[HTML][HTML] The war against tuberculosis: A review of natural compounds and their derivatives

M Maiolini, S Gause, J Taylor, T Steakin, G Shipp… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterial organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pose a
major threat to public health, especially in middle and low-income countries. Worldwide in …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond pills and tests: addressing the social determinants of tuberculosis

T Wingfield, MA Tovar, D Huff, D Boccia, MJ Saunders… - Clinical medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Poverty drives tuberculosis (TB) rates but the approach to TB control has been
disproportionately biomedical. In 2015, the World Health Organization's End TB Strategy …