I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that the month of March is Tuberculosis (TB) Awareness Month, with World TB Day being observed on March 24 each year;
2) further notes that this is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing thousands of deaths every year in South Africa and the rest of the world;
3) acknowledges that to help stop the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) started a new plan called the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight Towards the Elimination of Tuberculosis; and
4) calls for efforts to be intensified to reach those who suffer from this disease who may fall below the radar of health systems every year.
Agreed to.