The control of TB and its eventual eradication throughout the world will be slow if clinical and epidemiological procedures alone are used. However, if the health education process is added at the administrative level, and sufficient qualified health education specialists engaged, the eradication may proceed more rapidly. More people will assume greater responsibility for their own health protection, local communities will show stronger leadership for their own health programs and, public health and TB services will be strengthened. Health education practice has met the demands of the period since the major change in TB therapy was instituted in 1944.