00:06 - When I start hearing about that I'm having TB, 00:12 I felt so broken. 00:14 I felt 00:16 so angry. 00:19 I've seen this thing from my mom and what it does. 00:22 And then they said it's an MDR, 00:25 and then it's worse than the normal TB. 00:30 South Africa is among the thirty countries that make up 87% of the world's TB burden. 00:37 USAID's new model The Global Accelerator to End TB increases support for local governments, 00:40 civil society, and communities to fight TB. 00:45 My name is Nothabo. 00:48 I was born in 1987 in Cape Town. 00:54 I was born as the only girl in a family of four boys. 01:00 I am 32 years of age. 01:04 My body felt weak first of all. 01:09 I felt very weak. 01:11 I lost appetite. 01:13 I was coughing also. 01:16 One thing I noticed when I started to feel sick, 01:20 I was losing my memory. 01:25 My family and the nurses from hospice, they helped me a lot. 01:32 At first it's very difficult. 01:34 It's very difficult, and even myself, to be honest, 01:39 I told myself I am not gonna do this. 01:43 12 months is too long. 01:45 It's 100 years for me. 01:47 Eating pills, 21 pills every day? 01:50 No, I can't. 01:51 But hospice nurses helped me. 01:54 They come for visits, they know my days. 01:58 I don't know how they do it. 01:59 They know, okay, today you are going to the doctor. 02:02 That week you are going to take your meds 02:06 so they know about me. 02:09 By empowering small clinics and hospitals to offer TB screenings & treatment, 02:13 patients like Nothabo don't have to travel far to receive care. 02:17 So I completed my treatment 02:19 on the eighth of this month, August 2019. 02:23 I was so happy. 02:24 I cried. 02:26 I cried all the way home. 02:28 With USAID's support, South Africa has made significant progress in achieving high treatment coverage. 02:36 I just wish no one gets this thing. 02:40 I just wish I could have a loudspeaker 02:42 for the whole world to tell them this thing does happen. 02:47 There is a TB. 02:48 There is MDR-TB. 02:51 But you can beat it, we can beat it. 02:54 (somber music)