A Survey on Tuberculosis Patients Presenting to Port Moresby General Hospital after Defaulting Tuberculosis (Tb) Treatment

Papua New Guinea for decades has been battling the very high prevalence of Tuberculosis (Tb) like other developing Nations. This nation faces many challenges in achieving desired cure rate in Papua New Guinea. Defaulting from tuberculosis (Tb) treatment has been one of the major obstacles to treatment management and an important challenge for TB control. Understanding of various factors accounting for treatment default could help to achieve better compliance from patients. Thus, the aim of the study is to look in depth into the causes and other related factors of Tb treatment default from Tb patients presenting to Port Moresby General Hospital after default in treatment, from May 2015 to May 2016.

TB: tuberculosis, DOTs: Direct observe treatment short course

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