Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7332930 Social Science & Medicine 2015 33 Pages PDF
Abstract
Despite free TB diagnosis and care in South Africa, patients incur substantial direct and indirect costs particularly prior to starting treatment. The poorest group of patients were incurring higher costs, with fewer resources to pay for it. Both the direct and indirect cost of illness should be taken into account when setting levels of financial protection and social support, to prevent TB illness from pushing the poor further into poverty.
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