Tuberculosis (TB) was once popularly depicted and even glamorized in art, especially among European literary figures, painters, and artists.1 Today any glamor is replaced with stigma of infection, contagiousness, poverty, malnutrition, and HIV infection.1 Stigma generally leads to isolation with attendant psychological, social, and economic costs, and some studies report it may contribute to delays in TB diagnosis and treatment, especially when the presence of health workers at a person鈥檚 home to administer direct observational therapy (DOT) might reveal their infection status to neighbors or community members closeby.2,3