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Catastrophic costs potentially averted by tuberculosis control in India and South Africa: a modelling study.
The Lancet ( IF 98.4 ) Pub Date : 2017-11-01 , DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(17)30341-8
Stéphane Verguet ₁ , Carlos Riumallo-Herl ₁ , Gabriela B Gomez ₂ , Nicolas A Menzies ₁ , Rein M G J Houben ₃ , Tom Sumner ₃ , Marek Lalli ₃ , Richard G White ₃ , Joshua A Salomon ₁ , Ted Cohen ₄ , Nicola Foster ₅ , Susmita Chatterjee ₆ , Sedona Sweeney ₇ , Inés Garcia Baena ₈ , Knut Lönnroth ₉ , Diana E Weil ₈ , Anna Vassall ₇

Affiliation

Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
TB Modelling Group, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India.
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Global TB Programme, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
Global TB Programme, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Public Health Science, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

The economic burden on households affected by tuberculosis through costs to patients can be catastrophic. WHO's End TB Strategy recognises and aims to eliminate these potentially devastating economic effects. We assessed whether aggressive expansion of tuberculosis services might reduce catastrophic costs.

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