The patient costs of care for those with TB and HIV: a cross-sectional study from South Africa

Mudzengi, D, Sweeney, S, Hippner, P, Kufa, T, Fielding, K, Grant, AD, Churchyard, GJ and Vassall, A. 2020. The patient costs of care for those with TB and HIV: a cross-sectional study from South Africa. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001593.

Mudzengi, D, Sweeney, S, Hippner, P, Kufa, T, Fielding, K, Grant, AD, Churchyard, GJ and Vassall, A. The patient costs of care for those with TB and HIV: a cross-sectional study from South Africa [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001593.

Mudzengi, D, Sweeney, S, Hippner, P, Kufa, T, Fielding, K, Grant, AD, Churchyard, GJ and Vassall, A (2020). The patient costs of care for those with TB and HIV: a cross-sectional study from South Africa. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001593.

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Description of data capture The study collected information on visits to health facilities, direct and indirect costs for participants and for their guardians and caregivers. Data collection used structured questionnaires at 18 MERGE study clinics between April and October 2013. Cost data were collected as part of the MERGE trial, which evaluated the effect of implementing an intervention to optimize/improve TB/HIV integration on morbidity, mortality and retention in care at public primary health care (PHC) clinics (Kufa et al. 2014).
Data capture method Interview: Face-to-face
Data Collection Period
FromTo
April 2013October 2013
Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository) 24 February 2020
Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)
North LatitudeEast LongitudeSouth LatitudeWest Longitude
-25.68628.4657-25.985128.0509
Language(s) of written materials English

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Data Creators Mudzengi, D, Sweeney, S, Hippner, P, Kufa, T, Fielding, K, Grant, AD, Churchyard, GJ and Vassall, A
LSHTM Faculty/Department Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Clinical Research
Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and Development
Research Centre TB Centre
Participating Institutions London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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ProjectFunderGrant NumberFunder URI
MERGEU.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS ReliefU2GPS000811http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100009054

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Date Deposited 02 Apr 2020 11:46
Last Modified 08 Jul 2021 12:52
Publisher London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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