Transcripts from key informant interviews and group interviews will be coded and analysed according to emerging themes using Ethnograph software for qualitative analysis. Data will be reported in the form of narratives or frequency tables in addition to standard thick ethnographic descriptions.

Coding of focus group interviews, ethnographic field notes and interviews with health workers using Atlas-TI software will enable the analysis of emerging themes and presentation of data in the form of narratives or frequency tables.

Transcripts from life histories will be coded and analysed according to emerging themes (Ethnograph or Atlas-Ti software). Data will be reported in the form of narratives or frequency tables. In addition, videotaped recordings of patients will be used for national and international advocacy with the permission of interview subjects. Semi-structured, open-ended interviews with patients and family members of patients will be coded and reported as narratives or frequencies of coded responses to better understand the impact of the persistence of MDR-TB in this setting.