"Treatment is of primary importance, and social assistance is secondary": A qualitative study on the organisation of tuberculosis (TB) care and patients' experience of starting and staying on TB treatment in Riga, Latvia

• Karina Kielmann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kkielmann@qmu.ac.uk

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5519-1658

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• Nicole Vidal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Vija Riekstina,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Riga East University Hospital, Riga, Latvia, University of Latvia, Faculty of Medicine, Internal Medicine Department, Riga, Latvia

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• Maria Krutikov,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TB Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Marieke J. van der Werf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Evita Biraua,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Riga East University Hospital, Riga, Latvia

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• Predrag Duric,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• David A. J. Moore

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Latvia, Faculty of Medicine, Internal Medicine Department, Riga, Latvia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3748-0154

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