Deputy President Mabuza consolidates South Africa's position on ending TB by 2030
The Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC), Deputy President David Mabuza has today, 7 September 2018, convened a Special Consultative SANAC Plenary meeting at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
SANAC is the body charged with coordinating South Africa’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, bringing together stakeholders from government, the private sector, non-governmental organisations, civil society, activists, health workers as well as religious and community leaders.
The SANAC Plenary discussed South Africa’s participation and common position to the first United Nations High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis to be attended by Heads of State and Government and representatives of States and Government taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 26 September 2018.
Deputy President Mabuza reaffirmed South Africa’s commitment, along with global countries and partners, to end the Tuberculosis epidemic globally by 2030, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
“In order to defeat the scourge of TB,” said the Deputy President, “it is of paramount importance that we provide leadership and work together to accelerate our national and global collective actions, investments, research and innovations urgently to fight this preventable and treatable disease of Tuberculosis.”
The Deputy President added that post the UN High Level Meeting, it was crucial that South Africa immediately develops her own implementation plan that will take the meeting’s resolutions forward.
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Thami Ngwenya
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E-mail: thami@presidency.gov.za
