Implications of pre-diagnosis costs incurred by patients and their families for tuberculosis-related health-seeking behaviors in Mbeya and Songwe regions, Tanzania

• Stella Kilima ,

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

  * E-mail: stellakilima@yahoo.com, stella.kilima@nimr.or.tz

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6792-0990

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• Kamban Hirasen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Godfrey Mubyazi,

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

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Aneesa Moolla,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, The Independent Institute of Education, IIEMSA, Ruimsig, South Africa

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• Nyanda Ntinginya,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Issa Sabi,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Simeon Mwanyonga,

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

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Denise Evans

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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