… of high burden of TB/HIV and poverty where TB services are free of charge, TB patients face
considerable payments and financial losses before and during treatment. Most of the costs …

… We selected 71 treatment cost papers on DS-TB only, ten papers on MDR-TB only and …
-TB and MDR-TB. These papers provided evidence on the costs of treating DS-TB and MDR-TB …

… The recent COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically decreased access to TB services and
treatment globally, and thus there is an urgent need to get TB programmes back on track to avoid …

… relative costs of accessing a TB diagnosis for the poor in a setting where public health services
are… free at the point of delivery, and “under the table” payments are rare, so the high costs …

… increased investment in TB in India. This study estimates the costs of TB services from a health
… efficient allocation of resources by India’s National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme. …

… First, given the high costs and logistical challenges of data collection, cost estimation
frequently employs convenience sampling methods, and sample sizes are often small. A related …

… care strategies in these settings have contended to deliver TB services free-of-charge, but …
high cost for their TB illness when compared to TB patients with high income, reflecting that TB …

… the unit costs of TB services from the health service providers’ … cost estimates derived from
that study, compares Value TB … and private settings, with slightly (5%) higher costs in private …

… to tuberculosis care integrated with general health services. … cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis
care. The WHO-coordinated … tuberculosis care project will provide a detailed costing and …

… patient direct costs for TB services and costs incurred to access these services. Direct …
within district public health facilities were the main causes of the high cost of TB diagnosis. …