Over the last year, TB-affected communities, civil society, academics and diplomats have been working tirelessly in preparation for the second UN High-Level Meeting on TB, which took place in New York on 22 September, as part of the UN General Assembly . The High-Level Meeting (HLM) represented the biggest political moment for TB, convening heads of state, political leaders, parliamentarians, policy makers and other UN agencies. The objective of the...
To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty last week (17 October), we spoke to Arafat Kabugo, who is based in Uganda and advocates for improved reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. We spoke to him about the current health challenges in Uganda and why it is so important that young people are involved in the process of designing solutions that have a direct impact on their lives.
On Tuesday 7 March, campaigners came together for an empowering grassroots conference call that shed light on the personal stories behind the statistics of Tuberculosis (TB), held in anticipation of World TB Day on Friday 24 March and the UN High-Level Meeting on TB in September. The call was both inspiring and informative as Caroline Mburu, a young TB champion and survivor, shared her experience of overcoming TB and becoming an advocate to end the stigma surrounding the disease.
This blog has been co-authored by Neil Raw (Senior Policy Adviser – Child Health) at UNICEF UK and Chhavi Bansal (Senior Policy Advocacy Officer (Child Health)) at RESULTS UK.
In 2023, no child should die from diseases that we can prevent with access to vaccination, treatment for malnutrition, and clean water, hygiene, and sanitation (WASH) services. Yet, we are on the verge of an unprecedented child survival crisis due to ongoing global challenges which have added to pre-...
In the run up to World TB Day (24 March) and the UN's High-Level meeting on TB in September, we're ramping up our advocacy efforts to end tuberculosis (TB). A deadly but curable disease, TB has killed millions of people in the last few years and sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the progress made in eradicating the disease. In our February conference call, we heard from our expert colleagues Vinny Wooding, Senior Parliamentary Advocacy Officer on TB, and Sahera Ramzan, Senior Policy...
Tom Cruise will grace our screens again this year trying to stop an enemy force and prevent an impending global disaster in another Mission: Impossible film. Yet, in the real world, similar efforts are also being made, but this time in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR). This includes reducing the timeline of safe and effective vaccines, treatments and tests from 300 to 100 days, dubbed the “100 Day Mission”. But what is needed to make this mission possible?
When the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 brought the world to a standstill in 2020, immunisation programmes worldwide were disrupted like almost every other health programme. The disruption was mainly due to the understandable diversion of resources to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as well as mobility restrictions stopping people from accessing healthcare or health workers reaching out to populations that are marginalised.
After over two years of the pandemic and ongoing efforts to...
Our April grassroots conference call delved into the importance of supporting the work of the Global Fund to Fight TB, AIDS and Malaria. We were joined by guest speaker Laura Zagrebelsky who leads the UK donor relations at the Global Fund. The Global Fund provides 77% of all international resources to fight TB! Laura explained why advocacy in the UK is at the heart of supporting the Global Fund’s goals, by helping to push the UK Government to make a financial pledge. The UK has...
On World TB Day 2022, this blog seeks to amplify some stories and experiences from TB patients, healthcare workers and advocates across Kenya, to raise awareness of one of the deadliest infectious diseases and advocacy efforts to #EndTB. We touch upon some of the meetings, briefings, photographs and videos provided to parliamentarians in a recent 'virtual trip' to Kenya.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, RESULTS UK regularly took delegations of parliamentarians to...
At the outset of the new year, a cross-party group of MP gathered at a backbench business debate in Westminster Hall to discuss global access to vaccines, and the UK Government’s part in the international response to-date .
14 Jan 2022
“It is time that the Government gives clarity as to how it will play a leading role in ending the pandemic globally. Boris Johnson says he wants us to be ‘Global Britain’. Well, now it is time to step up to the...
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