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The Director-General of the Ghana Health Services, Dr Elias Sory, has urged the service to collaborate with the traditional herbal houses, in reducing the prevalence of TB in the country. According to him, it is an undisputed fact that, majority of the people visit these herbal houses and therefore, could help detect the emergence of TB. He cited the Northern, Upper East and West and the Brong Ahafo regions as having the lowest detection rates of TB, in spite of the increasing rate of detection. Dr Sory, who represented the Health Minister, Ben Kumbuor, at an international seminar on �accelerating TB case detection in Ghana using ex-ray Equipment, was speaking at a forum, organized in collaborating with the MANGO consult of the USA, to use x-ray equipments to detect TB in which the current mode of detection is not 100% effective. In his contribution, the Programmes Manager of the TB � Control Programme (NTP), Dr Frank Bonsu, stated that, weak infrastructure for expansion, logistics and the low awareness rate TB detection, is affecting the reduction of the incidence of TB. He cited also the unfunctional TB centres and the weak management skills of some healthcare workers and TB stigmatization as inhibiting the reduction of the disease. Dr Bonsu has therefore called for a hands�on approach to the reduction of the detection rate if the health component of the Millenium Development Goals could be met.