The remaining priorities include holding countries accountable for the progress made and making investments in programmes a shared responsibility between governments and private sector donors.
TB, an infectious bacterial disease mainly affecting the lungs, has plagued humanity since before recorded history and has killed hundreds of millions of people in the past two centuries. It is still a leading killer in South Africa. Heads of state and government representatives from all UN member states committed to take major steps towards building a TB-free world.
“Unless urgent steps are taken to substantially increase research and development funding to enable the development of new and more patient-friendly treatment strategies, as well as transformative diagnostics and vaccines, rapid declines in tuberculosis mortality will prove difficult.” He also announced that the conditional grant for the 2019/20 financial year to tackle TB issues would be R485.3 million.
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