This girl smiles while she awaits her turn to receive tuberculosis treatment at a children's clinic in El Salvador. She had been suffering a respiratory illness that had passed undiagnosed for weeks. Health professionals finally discovered she was infected with TB and immediately began working together with her parents to provide her the Directly Observed Treatment (DOTS). The Global Plan to Stop TB encourages health care workers to implement the DOTS strategy to help stop tuberculosis and save millions of lives. Even today, 270,000 people every year become sick with TB, and 40,000 of the new cases are children.