Barriers in the access, diagnosis and treatment completion for tuberculosis patients in central and western Nepal: A qualitative study among patients, community members and health care workers

• Sujan Babu Marahatta,

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

  Affiliation Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Soaltee mode, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Rajesh Kumar Yadav,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Soaltee mode, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Deena Giri,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Soaltee mode, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Sarina Lama,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Soaltee mode, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Komal Raj Rijal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuwan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6281-8236

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• Shiva Raj Mishra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

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• Ashish Shrestha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Centre, Bhaktapur, Nepal

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• Pramod Raj Bhattrai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation National Tuberculosis Centre, Bhaktapur, Nepal

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• Roshan Kumar Mahato,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Dhulikhel Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal

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• Bipin Adhikari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: biopion@gmail.com

  Affiliations Nepal Community Health and Development Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8981-3910

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