UCT Sustainability and the SDGs 2022 - Report - Page 45
Pioneering a mobile TB
diagnostic clinic
South Africa accounts for 3.3% of the global TB burden.
Government targets are to reduce the country’s TB
incidence by 90% in 2030 and TB mortality to almost
zero by 2030. However, TB eradication efforts have been
severely slowed down by HIV and more recently by the
COVID-19 pandemic. Over 7.7 million people live with HIV,
and over 60% of those with TB also have HIV.
A multistakeholder partnership between UCT’s Lung
Institute, global healthcare company Novartis, the
national Department of Health and a non-profit
organisation, TB HIV Care resulted in the launch of the
first-ever mobile TB diagnostic clinic in Cape Town.
The clinic targets undiagnosed TB carriers – often
asymptomatic – in underserved communities in the
Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain districts.
Using its mobile TB diagnostic
clinic, this community-based active
case-finding initiative screened
12 000 people in 2022.
Partnering with community
film makers to drive social
change
The UCT Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS)
partnered with Sunshine Cinema to create the Film and
Impact Facilitator online short course. Over the span
of six months, the course empowers young people to
harness the power of film to drive positive change within
their communities. The course also gives young people
access to a network of expert producers in film and
social change strategy to draw inspiration from. Sunshine
Cinema is a non-profit solar-powered media network
working through Southern Africa to address youth
unemployment. The network equips young entrepreneurs
with a mobile solar cinema kit called the Sunbox and
imparts skills needed for them to become media
facilitators, generate an income and leverage storytelling
as a tool for driving social change.
