Exploring providers' perspectives of a community based TB approach in Southern Ethiopia: implication for community based approaches.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on November 09, 2015

Authors

Daniel G Datiko1,2, Mohammed A Yassin3, Olivia Tulloch4,5, Girum Asnake6, Tadesse Tesema7, Habiba Jamal8, Paulos Markos9, Luis E Cuevas10, Sally Theobald11

Author Affiliations

1: TB REACH Project, Sidama Zone, Hawassa, Ethiopia. danieljohn42@yahoo.com.
2: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. danieljohn42@yahoo.com.
3: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland. Mohammed.Yassin@theglobalfund.org.
4: Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. o.tulloch@odi.org.uk.
5: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. o.tulloch@odi.org.uk.
6: TB REACH Project, Sidama Zone, Hawassa, Ethiopia. girumasnake2006@yahoo.com.
7: TB REACH Project, Sidama Zone, Hawassa, Ethiopia. tadessemamo195@yahoo.com.
8: TB REACH Project, Sidama Zone, Hawassa, Ethiopia. habiba.jemal@yahoo.com.
9: TB REACH Project, Sidama Zone, Hawassa, Ethiopia. paulos.markos@yahoo.com.
10: Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. lcuevas@liverpool.ac.uk.
11: Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK. sjt@liverpool.ac.uk.

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