![]() ![]() ![]() It has implemented TB programs for decades and rapidly decentralized TB services. Įthiopia is among high-burden TB, TB-HIV, and drug-resistant countries. However, awareness about TB and the availability of services are often found to be suboptimal among underprivileged social groups, and illiterate, inaccessible, rural, and impoverished communities. Adequate knowledge and positive attitudes about TB patients are expected to contribute to improved health care–seeking behavior. Generally, TB-related knowledge and attitudes vary across countries, ranging from an understanding of its infectious cause to the belief that its cause is the evil eye, and from supportive to highly stigmatized views toward the disease and patients. Studies have shown that awareness of or knowledge about TB and the availability of patient-centered services in settings with high burdens of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and TB is inadequate. ![]() In addition, distance, cost, and sociocultural barriers limit care seeking. The decline of TB in developed countries with improved living conditions indicates that poor living conditions, as reflected by lack of awareness, stigma, poor health care–seeking behavior, and deficient health systems, favor TB transmission and occurrence of disease. Lack of awareness, in turn, leads to further transmission of the disease and poor treatment outcomes. Lack of awareness prevails in populations living in poor conditions, which leads to delay in health care-seeking due to lack of knowledge about the symptoms of TB and of prevention measures. TB is primarily a disease of the poor and its magnitude is high in socially disadvantaged populations or people residing in poor living condition, which are characterized by lack of education, poor housing, inadequate nutrition, overcrowding, and socioeconomic factors. TB is inequitably distributed and clustered among disadvantaged and socioeconomically deprived population groups. In 2017 about 10 million TB cases were estimated to occur, a third of them were missed, and about 1.6 million died in the same year. Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. The contact address for data requests is Challenge TB/MSH Ethiopia, Box 1157 code 1250, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Phone +251-116-630-145 or +251-116-630-164 or through the corresponding author - This KAP assessment was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development, through the Challenge TB Project under agreement number AID-OAA-A-14-00029.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interest exist. The authors have uploaded many supporting documents including data collection tools and site selection procedures. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: Data are available upon request-it is required that official or reasonable request should come to the authors or their institutions to share, as the data has sensitive personal property related questions. Received: DecemAccepted: OctoPublished: October 28, 2019Ĭopyright: © 2019 Datiko et al. PLoS ONE 14(10):Įditor: William Joe, Institute of Economic Growth, INDIA Citation: Datiko DG, Habte D, Jerene D, Suarez P (2019) Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to TB among the general population of Ethiopia: Findings from a national cross-sectional survey. ![]()
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