TB Stigma Assessment in Ukraine

Abstract

TB stigmatization is among the most significant social factors hindering equal access to the health care services for people with tuberculosis (PWTB), preventing them from seeking care and continuing treatment and resulting in poor health outcome and human rights violation. Personal factors, family, health care, community settings and legal environment were studied to assess how stigma affects people-centered care in Ukraine being amongst the thirty countries with high MDR TB burden.