The World Health Organization has issued ethical guidelines for implementing the End TB Strategy(1), which must be taken into account in the context of the local environment. The Asia-Pacific Region has major unique qualities in terms of tuberculosis, and it is critical to engage with the ethical issues raised. This research underlines important ethical considerations for the Asia-Pacific tuberculosis elimination agenda, and argues that more programmatic work is needed to guarantee that such challenges are addressed in clinical and public health programmes.
