Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde, says efforts are underway to reduce TB infections in children in the province.

He's visited the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town as part of a TB awareness campaign.

About 4"https://nari.co.za/images/influencer/53/April2021/168228800_5146728382066247_5463865809285994654_n.jpg",-thousand cases of TB or 11-percent of all TB cases in the country, are children under

the age of 15.

Winde, who chairs the AIDS and TB Council, says solutions to eradicate the disease can be achieved through co-operation between government and the private sector

" I'm applying the last year to learn about TB, how to eradicate TB, we got funding from the Bill and Belinda Gates Foundation,they've put 8"https://nari.co.za/images/influencer/53/April2021/168228800_5146728382066247_5463865809285994654_n.jpg", million rand towards this project, i think they've been involved for quite a long time in various aspects, but what really excited me when getting this latest funding, is that we always heard of bill gates being in support of eradicating the world of polio, so if we can get support now in trying to eradicate the world from TB, lets set ourselves

on that path "