Keeping an eye on costs – community health workers monitor TB treatment

Keeping an eye on costs – community health workers monitor TB treatment

Keeping an eye on costs – community health workers monitor TB treatment

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that only 32 percent of the world’s population has access to DOTS – a TB treatment strategy that requires health workers to watch patients taking their drugs. How can policy-makers improve the availability of DOTS? Community health workers may provide a cost-effective solution.

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