Deputy president calls for collective action to end TB in SA [SOUND]

# Deputy President Paul Mashatile urges South Africans to unite in the fight against tuberculosis. Speaking at the World TB Day commemoration in Gamalakhe, in KwaZulu-Natal, he highlighted the country’s high TB burden, with 270-thousand cases and 56-thousand deaths in 2023. Mashatile today launched the End TB campaign, aiming to test five-million people by next year and called for better integration of HIV and TB services, assuring citizens that treatment is free at public health facilities: