Md Khairul Hassan Jessy
Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious public health problem in Bangladesh. Bangladesh ranks 6th globally in terms of the world’s 30 high TB burden countries. Among
the estimated 10.4 million tuberculosis (TB) patients in 2015, 4.3 million were either not diagnosed or not notified to National TB Programmes (NTP).1 This
means that a staggering 40% of the TB patients globally are invisible to the public health system. We have little awareness about the quality of TB care
these patients receive, the barriers they face, and their outcomes. The National TB Programme (NTP) of Bangladesh along with its partners has been maintaining good basic TB control services with reasonable case detection and excellent treatment outcomes.