Front. Public Health Frontiers in Public Health Front. Public Health 2296-2565 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1756648 Correction Correction: Towards community-driven tuberculosis education: findings from a knowledge and engagement pilot survey in the rural community of Eastern Cape, South Africa Dlatu Ntandazo 1 * Tsuro Urgent 2 Faye Lindiwe Modest 3 Hosu Mojisola Clara 3 Sineke Ncomeka 3 Apalata Teke 3 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory-Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa Correspondence: Ntandazo Dlatu, lfaye@wsu.ac.za 08 01 2026 2025 13 1756648 28 11 2025 01 12 2025 Copyright © 2026 Dlatu, Tsuro, Faye, Hosu, Sineke and Apalata. 2026 Dlatu, Tsuro, Faye, Hosu, Sineke and Apalata https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Correction on Towards community-driven tuberculosis education: findings from a knowledge and engagement pilot survey in the rural community of Eastern Cape, South Africa by Dlatu, N., Tsuro, U., Faye, L. M., Hosu, M. C., Walter Sisulu University TB Research Group Medical Microbiology 2025 Honours Students, Ncomeka, S., and Apalata, T. (2025). Front. Public Health. 13:1671871. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1671871 tuberculosis (TB) TB knowledge stigma barriers to testing rural South Africa Eastern Cape health education KAP survey section-at-acceptance Public Health Education and Promotion

The title of this article was erroneously given as: “Toward community-driven tuberculosis education: findings from a knowledge and engagement pilot survey in the rural community of Eastern Cape, South Africa” The correct title of the article is “Towards community-driven tuberculosis education: findings from a knowledge and engagement pilot survey in the rural community of Eastern Cape, South Africa”

The Author contributions statement has been corrected to include the full initials for authors Lindiwe Modest Faye and Mojisola Clara Hosu. They are now written as “LMF” and “MCH”.

The collaborators in the Walter Sisulu University TB Research Group Medical Microbiology 2025 Honours Students were not listed in an end statement. A correction has been made to include their names in an end statement as follows:

Walter Sisulu University TB Research Group Medical Microbiology 2025 Honours Students

Bulela Sonka, Hloniphani Guma, Londiwe Nxumalo, Luvo Ntombana, Luzuko Mkono, Mandlenkosi Manika, Mbulelo Cebisa, Muziwabantu Joyi, Nande Ndamase, Phumelela Bana, Siphosihle Conham, Sithabile Moso, Yanga Somjobo.

Author Urgent Tsuro was erroneously assigned to affiliation “Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa.” This affiliation has now been removed for author Urgent Tsuro.

Affiliation “Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory-Medicine & Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa” was omitted for author Urgent Tsuro. This affiliation has now been added for author Urgent Tsuro.

“Author Ncomeka Sineke was erroneously spelt as Sineke Ncomeka” accurately reflects this correction. We also agree with the updated author citation as “Sineke N” and the use of “NS” for the author contributions statement.

The original version of this article has been updated.

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