‘I am on treatment since 5 months but I have not received any money’: coverage, delays and implementation challenges of ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ for tuberculosis patients – a mixed-methods study from South India

‘I am on treatment since 5 months but I have not received any money’: coverage, delays and implementation challenges of ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ for tuberculosis patients – a mixed-methods study from South India

Background: In March 2018, the Government of India launched a direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme to provide nutritional support for all tuberculosis (TB) patients in line with END TB strategy. Here, the money (@INR 500 [~8 USD] per month) is deposited electronically into the bank accounts of benef...

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Main Authors: Abhay Subhashrao Nirgude, Ajay M. V. Kumar, Timire Collins, Poonam Ramesh Naik, Malik Parmar, Li Tao, Kibballi Madhukeshwar Akshaya, Pracheth Raghuveer, Santosh K. Yatnatti, Navya Nagendra, Sharath B. Nagaraja, Shaira Habeena, Badarudeen MN, Ramkrishna Rao, Suresh Shastri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Global Health Action
Subjects:
conditional cash transfer
cash incentives
nutritional support
catastrophic expenditure
operational research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1633725

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1633725

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