Assessing access barriers to tuberculosis care with the tool to Estimate Patients' Costs: pilot results from two districts in Kenya

• Main Authors: Kirubi Beatrice (Author), Kipruto Hillary (Author), Woods Naomi (Author), Mauch Verena (Author), Sitienei Joseph (Author), Klinkenberg Eveline (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The poor face geographical, socio-cultural and health system barriers in accessing tuberculosis care. These may cause delays to timely diagnosis and treatment resulting in more advanced disease and continued transmission of TB. By ad...