DOTS Strategy

In 1993, the World Health Organisation devised the Directly Observed Treatment Strategy (DOTS) and recommended all countries to adopt it. It called for Nationally coordinated, high-quality TB services, which were priority for improving advancing and sustaining the fight against TB.

The DOTS strategy is based on five components as shown in the below figure.

Figure: Components of the DOTS Strategy

Resources

• India TB Report, 2021.
• Verma R, Khanna P, Mehta B. Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program in India: The Need to Strengthen, International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2013.
• NTEP Training Module 1-4: Overview of TB Control in India, for Programme Managers and Medical Officers.