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Access to DOTS Reduces Household Poverty

This fact sheet explains that DOTS can reduce household poverty by averting (1) the loss of income, (2) the cost of inadequate treatment, (3) the socio-economic costs of coping by families, (4) malnutrition, and (5) death.

Author:

Stop TB Partnership

Topic:

Program Management, Treatment- Directly Observed Therapy (DOT)

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