Patients are paying too much for tuberculosis: a direct cost-burden evaluation in Burkina Faso

Samia Laokri, Koiné Maxime Drabo, Olivier Weil, Benoît Kafando, Sary Mathurin Dembelé and Bruno Dujardin

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Abstract: Paying for health care may exclude poor people. Burkina Faso adopted the DOTS strategy implementing "free care" for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment. This should increase universal health coverage and help to overcome social and economic barriers to health access.

Keywords: Adult; Burkina Faso; Cost of Illness; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Tuberculosis -- diagnosis -- drug therapy -- economics; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- diagnosis -- drug therapy -- economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in: PloS one (2013) v.8 n° 2,p.e56752

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