Coping with drug resistant tuberculosis alongside COVID-19 and other stressors in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study.
Collins TimireKatharina KranzerDebora PedrazzoliFungai KavengaSamuel KasoziFredrick MbibaVirginia A BondPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2023)
DR-TB combined with COVID-19 and other stressors pushed households into deeper poverty, and vulnerability. Multi-sectoral approaches that combine health systems, psychosocial and economic interventions are crucial to mitigate diagnostic delays and suffering, and meaningfully support people with DR-TB and their households to compensate the loss of livelihoods during and post DR-TB treatment.