BHEKISISA OP-ED | Does SA's biggest killer show up in your party's manifesto?
Public health is political. We learnt that during the early days of the HIV epidemic when civil society stood up to Aids denialism.
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Public health is political. We learnt that during the early days of the HIV epidemic when civil society stood up to Aids denialism.
TB, a curable and preventable disease, is South Africa’s biggest killer. Is your political party going to do something about it – and does it show up in its election manifesto?
Government needs to invest real political capital in establishing and implementing a transparent TB recovery plan after new WHO statistics show notable increases in deaths.
According to new estimates from the World Health Organization, around 61,000 people died of TB in South Africa in 2020, an increase of around 5% over 2019. That works out to more than 1,100 TB deaths in the country every week. South Africa urgently needs a transparent TB recovery plan and for b...