The Development Aid From People to People in Zambia (DAPP) has called on the government and other stakeholders to increase funding towards the reduction of Tuberculosis (TB) incidence and mortality in Zambia.
Speaking during the TB reach project conference held in Lusaka today, DAPP Resource Mobilization Officer Jabez Kanyanda says that every year the country records 59 thousand cases of TB, 10 percent of it being children.
ZANIS reports that Mr Kanyanda said that because of the increments in the number of TB cases, the funding toward ending it should also increase.
Speaking at the same event Zambia Institute of Mass Communication (ZAMCOM) Lecturer Bestone Ngonga urged the media to help in the sensitisation of TB in communities.
Mr Ngonga disclosed that citizens in the community living with TB get stigmatized because of lack of knowledge about the disease.
Meanwhile Roster Daka, a mother of a baby who survived from TB thanked DAPP and stakeholders for the TB reach project.
