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While public health programs recognize community factors, stigma is still framed as a problem of awareness rather than a structural outcome of health institutions. Practices of isolation, surveillance, and labeling have normalized fear and exclusion, shaping how communities perceive and respond to the disease. By pathologizing patients rather than confronting inequities, institutions perpetuate the very stigma that hinders diagnosis and treatment. To end tuberculosis, national frameworks, especially in low- and middle-income settings, must become stigma-responsive by embedding social trust, accountability, and equity as measurable goals alongside cure rates. 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