"Post-tuberculosis financial disease"-we need to face it to eliminate tuberculosis.

Abstract

1. Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Brasil. 2. Instituto de Doenças do Tórax, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Brasil. In the study by Loureiro et al.,(1) published in this issue of the Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, the authors studied the economic burden on the household during the follow-up of patients after tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in five Brazilian capitals. They concluded that “participants incurred economic losses in the pre-diagnosis period and severe loss of income in the post-diagnosis period,”, which resulted in unemployment and social sequelae caused by tuberculosis.