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...
Friday 24 March is World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, marked across the world to increase public awareness of the disease and to push for improved and faster progress to end the TB epidemic by 2030. Tuberculosis is a deadly infectious disease that has been around for thousands of years, causing a devastating effect on individuals and communities. Despite TB being preventable and curable, in...
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.
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...
Co-authored by Vinny Wooding, Chhavi Bansal, Harry Bignell and Ruthie Walters
During World Immunization Week (24-30 April), people around the world come together to highlight the importance of vaccines and how they protect us against diseases. So, for World Immunisation Week, at RESULTS, we have reflected on the advocacy we’re doing around vaccines, why it’s important, and what it’s got to do with an end to poverty.
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...
Our March grasroots conference call delved into the reasons why we must continue our campaigning to end tuberculosis (TB). We were joined by guest speaker Dr. Uvistra Naidoo, a paediatrician in Capetown, South Africa with a special interest in childhood TB. Uvi contracted a severe form of multi-drug resistant TB during his medical residency which took him over three years to be cured. He provided a powerful insight into the world of TB both as a survivor of the disease and as a...
In our December call, we reflected on our campaigning in 2021 and heard some updates and news about recent UK Government decisions on international development issues, in particular the disappointing outcomes of the Spending Review and the Nutrition for Growth Summit . We then heard from RESULTS Advocacy Officers about TB, COVID-19...
Global health and infecti ous diseases have never been a more popular topic of conversation than over the past 18 months. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve all developed a new vocabulary, where “vaccines”, “R-rates”, “transmission” and “cases” are words we throw into conversation during catch-ups with colleagues or over dinner with friends.
But has our newfound interest in epidemiology translated into action to fight other infectious diseases?...
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