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Ambulatory, community-based care, whereby treatment is administered on an outpatient basis from a local community-based clinic often directly to patients in their homes (home-based care), has been found to be effective in multiple settings with high cure rates [4,6,7]. Treatment at the community level is feasible and safe and enables wider health influencing factors to be addressed including psychosocial support [8,9]. In addition, community-based models of care are three to four times cheaper than hospital-based approaches [3,10]. WHO now recommends MDR-TB treatment models that are primarily ambulatory [11,12]. However, little is known about patient and staff acceptability of community-based care in sub-Saharan Africa [13,14].