Patient and health-care provider experience of a person-centred, multidisciplinary, psychosocial support and harm reduction programme for patients with harmful use of alcohol and drug-resistant tuberculosis in Minsk, Belarus

• Main Authors: Rebecca Elizabeth Harrison (Author), Volha Shyleika (Author), Christian Falkenstein (Author), Ekaterine Garsevanidze (Author), Olga Vishnevskaya (Author), Knut Lonnroth (Author), Öznur Sayakci (Author), Animesh Sinha (Author), Norman Sitali (Author), Alena Skrahina (Author), Beverley Stringer (Author), Cecilio Tan (Author), Htay Thet Mar (Author), Sarah Venis (Author), Dmitri Vetushko (Author), Kerri Viney (Author), Raman Vishneuski (Author), Antonio Isidro Carrion Martin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) often concentrates in groups of people with complex health and social issues, including alcohol use disorders (AUD). Risk of TB, and poor TB treatment outcomes, are substantially elevated in people who have AUD. Médecins sans Frontières and the Belarus Ministr...