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Expansion of social protection is necessary towards zero catastrophic costs due to TB: The first national TB patient cost survey in the Philippines

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  • Jhiedon L Florentino
  • Rosa Mia L Arao
  • Anna Marie Celina Garfin
  • Donna Mae G Gaviola
  • Carlos R Tan
  • Rajendra Prasad Yadav
  • Tom Hiatt
  • Fukushi Morishita
  • Andrew Siroka
  • Takuya Yamanaka
  • Nobuyuki Nishikiori

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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease associated with poverty. Moreover, a significant proportion of TB patients face a substantial financial burden before and during TB care. One of the top targets in the End TB strategy was to achieve zero catastrophic costs due to TB by 2020. To assess patient costs related to TB care and the proportion of TB-affected households that faced catastrophic costs, the Philippines National TB Programme (NTP) conducted a national TB patient cost survey in 2016–2017. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 1,912 TB patients taking treatment in health facilities engaged with the NTP. The sample consists of 786 drug-sensitive TB (DS-TB) patients in urban facilities, 806 DS-TB patients in rural facilities, and 320 drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) patients. Catastrophic cost due to TB is defined as total costs, consisting of direct medical and non-medical costs and indirect costs net of social assistance, exceeding 20% of annual household income. Results: The overall mean total cost including pre- and post-diagnostic costs was US$601. The mean total cost was five times higher among DR-TB patients than DS-TB patients. Direct non-medical costs and income loss accounted for 42.7% and 40.4% of the total cost of TB, respectively. More than 40% of households had to rely on dissaving, taking loans, or selling their assets to cope with the costs. Overall, 42.4% (95% confidence interval (95% CI): 40.2–44.6) of TB-affected households faced catastrophic costs due to TB, and it was significantly higher among DR-TB patients (89.7%, 95%CI: 86.3–93.0). A TB enabler package, which 70% of DR-TB patients received, reduced catastrophic costs by 13.1 percentage points (89.7% to 76.6%) among DR-TB patients, but only by 0.4 percentage points (42.4% to 42.0%), overall. Conclusions: TB patients in the Philippines face a substantial financial burden due to TB despite free TB services provided by the National TB Programme. The TB enabler package mitigated catastrophic costs to some extent, but only for DR-TB patients. Enhancing the current social and welfare support through multisectoral collaboration is urgently required to achieve zero catastrophic costs due to TB.

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  • Jhiedon L Florentino & Rosa Mia L Arao & Anna Marie Celina Garfin & Donna Mae G Gaviola & Carlos R Tan & Rajendra Prasad Yadav & Tom Hiatt & Fukushi Morishita & Andrew Siroka & Takuya Yamanaka & Nobuy, 2022. "Expansion of social protection is necessary towards zero catastrophic costs due to TB: The first national TB patient cost survey in the Philippines," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(2), pages 1-19, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0264689
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264689
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