Tuberculosis (TB), a disease of great antiquity continues to be a major public health problem worldwide. One-third of the world’s over six billion population is infected with the tubercle bacilli with over two million deaths annually1. The available data on TB in Ghana indicate that the disease burden is high and TB remains an important cause of major disability and death in the country2. With Ghana’s population of over 20 million, The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 44,041 new cases of all forms of TB in Ghana corresponding to a TB incidence rate of 211 per 100,000 inhabitants of whom 19,285 are smear positive cases3. This upsurge of TB is attributed to factors such.
