Study setting
TB, MDR-TB
This study will be conducted in Mulago National Referral Hospital in the central region and Lira regional referral hospital in the northern region. These hospitals register the highest number of MDR-TB patients in Uganda. Both these hospitals are public government hospitals not for profit. The hospitals house specialized TB wards and clinics, operating a weekly TB clinic to follow up patients with drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB on therapy and to initiate therapy for newly diagnosed patients. Being referral hospitals, these facilities receive patients referred from health facilities within a radius of up to 30km and in some cases even further.