Follow-up of patients diagnosed with and treated for tuberculosis in Brazil: financial burden on the household.
Rafaela Borge LoureiroLeticia Molino GuidoniGeisa Carlesso FregonaSandra Maria do Valle Leone de OliveiraDaniel Souza SacramentoJair Dos Santos PinheiroDenise GomesEthel Leonor Noia MacielPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2023)
Policies to mitigate catastrophic costs should include interventions planned by the health care system and social protection measures for tuberculosis patients with lower incomes in order to eliminate the global tuberculosis epidemic by 2035-a WHO goal in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.