TABLE 1.

Health care services used by tuberculosis patients in Lamberéné, Gabon

#	First choice	Second choice	Third choice	Fourth choice
1	Plants	Traditional healer	Hospital
2	Plants	Hospital	Traditional healer
3	Plants	Exorcism and prayer	Fokoro*	Hospital
4	Plants	Exorcism and prayer	Fokoro	Hospital
5	Plants	Traditional healer	Hospital and prayer
6	Plants	Hospital
7	Plants	Exorcism and prayer	Hospital
8	Plants	Hospital
9	Plants	Hospital and prayer
10	Plants	Pharmacy	4 traditional healers	Hospital
11	Plants	Pharmacy	Hospital and prayer	Traditional healer†
12	Plants	Traditional healer	Hospital
13	Plants and traditional healer	Hospital	Traditional healer
14	Plants and fokoro	Hospital and prayer
15	Plants and pharmacy	Hospital and prayer	Exorcism
16	Hospital
17	Hospital
18	Hospital and prayer
19	Hospital and prayer
20	Hospital	Traditional healer
21	Hospital, exorcism and prayer
22	Hospital and plants	Traditional healer‡
23	Pharmacy	Plants	Hospital
24	Pharmacy	Hospital
25	Pharmacy	Traditional healer	Hospital
26	Pharmacy	Hospital and traditional healer
27	Pharmacy	Hospital and prayer	Traditional healer†
28	Pharmacy	Hospital
29	Pharmacy and prayer	Hospital
30	Fokoro	Hospital and prayer

^*Antibiotics without prescription.

^†Option for the future, in case hospital treatment did not work.

^‡Patient died before going to traditional healer.