Access to DOTS Reduces Household Poverty

Author: Stop TB Partnership

Publication Date: 2002

Format: Fact Sheet

Language: English

Abstract

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.

Publisher:

Stop TB Partnership

Audience(s):

General Public

Topic:

Program Management, Treatment- Directly Observed Therapy (DOT), Behavioral/Social Science

Notes:

This is one of the World TB Day 2002 Series of Fact sheets on TB and Poverty.

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