Cost-effectiveness of community health workers in tuberculosis control in Bangladesh

• Main Authors: Islam Md. Akramul (Author), Wakai Susumu (Author), Ishikawa Nobukatsu (Author), Chowdhury A.M.R (Author), Vaughan J. Patrick (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost-effectiveness of the tuberculosis (TB) programme run by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which uses community health workers (CHWs), with that of the government TB programme which does not use CHWs. METHODS: TB control statistics and cost data for Jul...