Illness costs to households are a key barrier to access diagnostic and treatment services for tuberculosis in Tajikistan

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ayé, Raffael ^a,b   Wyss, Kaspar ^a,b   Abdualimova, Hanifa ^c   Saidaliev, Sadullo ^d  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Project Sino   (Tajikistan)

^d Ministry of Health   (Tajikistan)

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EID: 78650260918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-340     Document Type: Article

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