Oscar Andrés Cruz Martínez, Ingrid García, Gloria Mercedes Puerto, Nelson J Alvis-Zakzuk, Martha Patricia López, Juan Carlos Moreno Cubides, Ángela María Sánchez Salazar, Julián Trujillo Trujillo, Claudia Marcela Castro-Osorio, Vivian Vanessa Rubio, Carlos Castañeda-Orjuela, Ernesto Montoro, Peter Nguhiu, Inés García Baena
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the baseline to measure one of the three indicators of the World Health Organization (WHO) End TB strategy (2015-2035), measure the costs incurred by patients affected by tuberculosis (TB) during a treatment episode and estimate the proportion of households facing catastrophic costs (CC) and associated risk factors, in Colombia, 2021. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A nationally representative cross-sectional survey was conducted among participants on TB treatment in Colombia, using telephone interviews due to the exceptional context of the COVID-19 pandemic...
2024: PloS One