7. Reduce Infant, Child And Youth Morbidity And Mortality

Key interventions include:

. Maintain the percentage of children fully immunized under 1 year of age at minimum 90% throughout they MTEF period; . Maintain the measles immunization coverage rate at 90% throughout the MTEF period; . Expand the implementation of the Integrated School Health Programme as follows: V Seventy percent (9 666 of 13 809) of quantile 1 and 2 schools to benefit from the Integrated School Health Programme (ISHP) during 2013/14, with up to 95% schools benefiting during 2015/16; and V Nine thousand and sixty six schools translate to 297 000 grade 1 learners and 80 200 grade 8 learners benefitting from the ISHP during 2013/14. 8. REDUCE THE BURDEN OF TUBERCULOSIS (TB)

Key interventions will include:

. Increase the TB cure rate from 73.1% in 2011/12 to the World Health Organization (WHO) target of 85% by 2015/16; . Reduce the TB treatment defaulter rate from 6.8% in 2011/12 to less than 5% by 2015/16; and . Reduce turnaround time of TB test results by increasing the number of tests conducted using the GeneXpert. Estimated 800 000 tests to be conducted using GeneXpert during 2013/14, increasing to 1 million by 2015/16.