{"id":13732,"date":"2025-10-24T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-launches-digital-tb-dashboard-to-track-national-testing-efforts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:33","slug":"sa-launches-digital-tb-dashboard-to-track-national-testing-efforts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-launches-digital-tb-dashboard-to-track-national-testing-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"SA launches digital TB dashboard to track national testing efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The initiative aims to bolster the country\u2019s efforts towards the End TB Campaign, which seeks to test five million people for TB by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The TB dashboard offers an interactive overview of testing data, allowing users to filter information by province, district, age, and sex. Health Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi described the platform as a crucial tool in the fight against TB.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have all agreed that in every forum I have attended on TB that unless we come up with a vaccine, we are going nowhere. At the current rate, it is calculated that the war against TB will only be won by 2080. That is why we are pursuing the development of a vaccine,\u201d Motsoaledi explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dashboard is expected to improve monitoring and planning by health authorities, enabling faster and more targeted responses to outbreaks while providing a transparent overview of the country\u2019s progress in combating the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC\/ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13733,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13732","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"\nSouth Africa\u2019s (SA) National Health Department has launched a new digital platform designed to provide real-time data on tuberculosis (TB) testing across the country. ","published_date":null,"news_description":" South Africa\u2019s (SA) National Health Department has launched a new digital platform designed to provide real-time data on tuberculosis (TB) testing across the country. ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18717,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13732\/revisions\/18717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}