Table 2.

Reasons for patient delay

Reasons for delay	n	%	Rank
Low income and poverty	113	42.0	1
Not aware of the TB center	112	41.6	2
Felt ashamed (stigma)	104	38.7	3
Traditional healers	85	31.6	4
Religious leaders	79	29.4	5
Busy doing domestic work	77	28.6	6
TB center is too far	58	21.6	7
Community exclusion	42	15.6	8
High cost of transportation	39	14.5	9
Lack of cooperation from household	35	13.0	10
Substandard care for the poor	28	10.4	11
Lack of gender facilities	26	9.7	12
High treatment cost	22	8.2	13

TB = tuberculosis.