Turning liabilities into resources: informal village doctors and tuberculosis control in Bangladesh

• Váldodahkkit: MA Hamid Salim (Dahkki), Mukund Uplekar (Dahkki), Paul Daru (Dahkki), Maug Aung (Dahkki), E Declercq (Dahkki), Knut Lönnroth (Dahkki)
• Materiálatiipa: Girji
• Almmustuhtton: The World Health Organization, 2006-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Fáttát: article
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In 1998, the Damien Foundation Bangladesh invited semi-qualified, private "gram dakter" (Bangla for "village doctors") to participate in tuberculosis (TB) programmes in a population of 26 million people in rural Bangladesh. The organization trained 12 525 village doctors to not o...