Public-private partnership for tuberculosis control: the bill please?

The article presents a correspondence about public private partnership for tuberculosis control. The main strategies for meeting the project's objectives towards tuberculosis control are: strengthening the regulatory framework, selectively training private practitioners in the area including general practitioners, medical specialists, nurses, and midwives plus academic detailing and scaling up of an existing hospital DOTS linkage. Should the project succeed, this information would be useful to those thinking of adopting a similar strategy.