Different challenges, different approaches and related expenditures of community-based tuberculosis activities by international non-governmental organizations in Myanmar

Table 3 Average number of TB cases detected, number of patients completing treatment and cost per patient completing treatment through community-based TB care by four INGOs in Myanmar, 2013^a and 2014

Variables	INGO
Variables	(A)	(B)	(C)	(D)
Number of TB cases detected per year	2 605	206	514	1 490
Number of TB patients that completed treatment per year	1 936	134	371	1 242
Cost per patient that completed treatment (new case)^a	306	1 076	874	215
Cost per patient that completed treatment (retreatment)^a	445	1 215	1 013	354

^aCost in US$. cost data from 2013 were adjusted for inflation and expressed in 2014 constant prices

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