Measles, malaria and motorbikes: Immunisation in Ghana
Edmund hopping on a bike to provide immunisation services in hard to reach island communities in Afram Plains, Ghana. Image: Edmund Duodo, Twitter, 2018
Edmund Atweri Duodo:
I was born in a village called Teacher Mante in...
Brick by Brick: Accelerating Progress on Global Health
In 2019, no-one should be denied access to life-saving vaccines, services for diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and good nutrition. Even though we have made remarkable progress in improving global health, challenges...
June 2019 conference call -
This month we were joined by Resty Nalwanga from Uganda. Resty became an advocate for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria after she started...
October Grassroots Conference Call 2019
Thanks to everyone who joined our October conference call on Tuesday evening, it was great to see lots of new faces! To help us dissect this month's campaign on Building Health for...
5 reasons we hope to see a fully funded Global Fund
1.54 pm, 10 October 2019: The Global Fund announces it has reached its US $14 billion target! Congratulations to everyone who has contributed to this amazing result!
Earlier in the day, Rachael Hore, RESULTS UK's...
World Pneumonia Day 2019: the opportunity that lies ahead
Pneumonia is a respiratory infection that accounts for 15% of all deaths of children under 5 years old, killing over 880,000 children in 2017. However, it can be averted by immunisation and adequate nutrition. This enormous...
Tuberculosis and Universal* Health Coverage. *Terms and Conditions Apply.
This Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, the theme is “Keeping the Promise.” There is no shortage of high-level political promises on achieving universal health coverage (UHC), ending tuberculosis (TB) and leaving no one behind, as well as recognition of the co-dependency of the agendas to end...
Youth Leaders for Health: Volunteer-led advocacy goes global!
RESULTS has long supported global volunteer-led advocacy, working with partner organisations across the world to support community volunteers use their voices to fight poverty, just as grassroots campaigners do here in the UK . From...
How the COVID-19 pandemic shows us the importance of immunisation
Immunisation allows people to live in freedom from the fear of disease. Coronavirus has laid this truth bare - as humanity is exposed to a disease it has no protection from, life as we know it totally alters.
The COVID-...
Every day is different - Using my voice as a health advocate during COVID-19
This is a guest blog by Lucky Soglo, Youth Leader for Health. Lucky advocates regularly for increased domestic resources for enhanced malaria responses and health system strengthening, through his involvement in the Youth Leaders for...
