First national tuberculosis patient cost survey in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Assessment of the financial burden faced by TB-affected households and the comparisons by drug-resistance and HIV status

• Phonenaly Chittamany,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Takuya Yamanaka ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Takuya.Yamanaka@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliations Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0807-2370

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• Sakhone Suthepmany,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Thepphouthone Sorsavanh,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Phitsada Siphanthong,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Jacques Sebert,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Kerri Viney,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Thipphasone Vixaysouk,

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

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Moeko Nagai,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Vilath Seevisay,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Kiyohiko Izumi,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Fukushi Morishita,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines

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• Nobuyuki Nishikiori

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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