Directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS, also known as TB-DOTS) is the name given to the tuberculosis (TB) control strategy recommended by the World Health Organization.
Styblo refined "a treatment system of checks and balances that provided high cure rates at a cost affordable for most developing countries."
[4] During the early 1990s, WHO determined that of the nearly 700 different tasks involved in Styblo's meticulous system, only 100 of them were essential to run an effective TB control program.
[5] In 1993, the World Bank's Word Development Report claimed that the TB control strategies used in DOTS were one of the most cost-effective public health investments.
[6] In the Fall of 1994, Kraig Klaudt, WHO's TB Advocacy Officer, developed the name and concept for a marketing strategy to brand this complex public health intervention.
"[7][8] According to POZ Magazine, "You know the worldwide epidemic of TB is entering a critical stage when the cash-strapped World Health Organization spends a fortune on glossy paper, morbid photos and an interactive, spinning (!)
According to WHO Director-General Hiroshi Nakajima, "We anticipate that at least 10 million deaths from TB will be prevented in the next ten years with the introduction and extensive use of the DOTS strategy.