# Deputy president and South African National AIDS Council chairperson, Paul Mashatile, will deliver the keynote address at the national World TB Day commemorative event in KwaZulu-Natal today. This year’s official theme is, Yes! You and I Can End TB–Commit, Invest, Deliver. South Africa remains among the countries hardest hit by TB, which has remained the leading cause of death claiming around an estimated 56-thousand lives a year, more than 54-percent of which are people living with HIV.
Mashatile to lead official World TB Day commemoration in KZN today