Patient and community experiences of tuberculosis diagnosis and care within a community-based intervention in Ethiopia: a qualitative study.

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Published in BMC Public Health on February 25, 2015

Authors

Olivia Tulloch1, Sally Theobald2, Fukushi Morishita3, Daniel G Datiko4,5, Girum Asnake6, Tadesse Tesema7, Habiba Jamal8, Paulos Markos9, Luis E Cuevas10, Mohammed A Yassin11,12

Author Affiliations

1: Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. Olivia.Tulloch@LSTMed.ac.uk.
2: Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. Sally.Theobald@LSTMed.ac.uk.
3: Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. morishita.fukushi@gmail.com.
4: Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. danieljohn42@yahoo.com.
5: HHA/REACH ETHIOPIA, Hawassa, SNPPR, Ethiopia. danieljohn42@yahoo.com.
6: HHA/REACH ETHIOPIA, Hawassa, SNPPR, Ethiopia. girumasnake2006@yahoo.com.
7: HHA/REACH ETHIOPIA, Hawassa, SNPPR, Ethiopia. tadessmt@yahoo.com.
8: HHA/REACH ETHIOPIA, Hawassa, SNPPR, Ethiopia. habiba.jemal@yahoo.com.
9: HHA/REACH ETHIOPIA, Hawassa, SNPPR, Ethiopia. paulos.markos@yahoo.com.
10: Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. lcuevas@liv.ac.uk.
11: Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. mohammed.yassin@theglobalfund.org.
12: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Chemin des Blandonnet 8, 1214, Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland. mohammed.yassin@theglobalfund.org.

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