Hon Chair, Minister and Deputy Minister of Health, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health, stakeholders of the Department of Health, ladies and gentlemen. The ANC rises in support of Budget Vote 16 on Health. The ANC policy has always been biased to the working class and has placed the marginalised and the poor at its centre. The 52nd National Conference resolved that the health should be one of the two key priorities of government and planned this second phase of transition to be characterised by decisive action to effect economic transformation and democratic consolidation, critical both to improve quality of health life of all South Africans and to promote nation building and social cohesion.
As such, government has maintained the balance between the numbers of policy's interest based on priority and urgency, by ensuring that the National Department of Health receives one of the largest shares in the budget allocation, so that we can address all the challenges that we are faced with as the Department of Health. Preventing and treating communicable and non-communicable diseases, one round, one condom. No condom, no sex. We must try to practise a healthy lifestyle as human beings in combating HIV which remains a priority of the ANC-led government. The department is committed to 1990 target of the joint United Nations programme on HIV and Aids.
In this regard, the HIV and Aids component will receive the bulk of grant allocation in order to continue the implementation of universal test and treat policy for ARV treatment.
IsiXhosa:
Siyaqhuba noko bahlali baseMzantsi Afrika, singathetha sitsho ukuba abanamehlo bayabona. Abanendlebe bayeva. I-ANC yenze umsebenzi omkhulu kuluntu lwaseMzantsi Afrika. Namhlanje abantu bayakwazi ukufumana amachiza, iipilisi, umntu ufumana ipilisi ibenye atsho aphile.
English:
We want to lead a healthy society as a country. The ANC-led government has made substantial progress on its policy responses epidemic and implements various inter-related interventions to mitigate and to stop the spread of HIV. Some of these interventions include but not limited to: Firstly, National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STIs 2017/2022 which serves as an sexuality education, young women and girls programme sponsored by the global fund Zazi Development Plan Vision 2030, NDP, South Africa is investing significantly on various interventions in the are of public health care. Some of the essential interventions to improve primary health care in South Africa include: Rollout of the Male Medical
Circumcision programme, MMC, which is an aggressive rollout intended on reducing the number of men who are living with HIV.
It is seconded that scaling up MMC should have significant health benefits not only for the men but also for the women in South Africa. The Fix Dose Combination, FDC, ARV pill: The recent introduction of the FDC ARV pill is the one that is the greatest success in the ANC-led government and has made the following outbreak of HIV and Aids epidemic: The FDC ARV pill is a once daily pill as I have indicated that...
IsiXhosa:
... awusathathi la nto ininzi ngoku. Uthatha nje ipilisi ibenye uphile.
English:
The dosage makes it easier for those living with the virus. The pill is hassle free as it improves and enhances portability. The implementation of MomConnect, aims in strengthening health services and reducing maternally and child mortality. TB has been identified as the leading underlying cause of deaths in South Africa. I would like to implore Members of this August to heed to the call and be
part of global action known as Global TB Caucus which was first established in October 2017. Malibongwe, we support the budget.