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Alice Sagwidza-Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland It is essential that any healthcare program in its advancement does not forget the population for whom it is developed. At the recent 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health with the theme of ‘Confronting resistance: Fundamentals to innovations’, countries shared interesting food for thought and unique advanced approaches to people focused quality care for innovative management of MDR-TB. For an extended period of time we have had the directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) for TB patients, in which healthcare workers observe patients as they take their medicines. It introduced task shifting, a concept that was first met with hesitancy by mostly healthcare workers and the general population at large. But it remains an internationally recommended highly efficient and cost-effective strategy for TB control. However, noting the increase in the number of patients that need to be directly observed and the limited space to...