Even though medical interventions a

Even though medical interventions are the main
global strategy, controlling TB also requires social,
economic and environmental interventions as it is
considered as “social disease”.5 Poverty and low
economic status as causes of increasing risk of
TB may remain unclear, but the higher risk of TB
among people in low economic status may be largely
affected by the greater exposure to some risk factors
of TB. Currently, DOTS program mainly focuses
on curative perspective and give limited concern
on public health and prevention issue. Whereas,
strengthening preventive efforts in the community
is imperative including protection of uninfected,
healthy people in community.