In this guest blog post, Sue Dart, the lead TB nurse for the London Borough of Newham, discusses the importance of active case finding and shares the stories of the patients she met during a visit to Kampong Cham hospital.
It's another hot day in Cambodia. Blue sky awaits as we leave the hotel to travel a short distance to the hospital in Kampong Cham about two and a half hours north east of Phnom Penh. Amongst the grounds sits the TB hospital which has inpatient...
In this guest blog post, Dr Jess Potter reflects on the scale of Cambodia's hidden TB epidemic, the progress that has been made and stresses why continued support to the Global Fund is vital.
The Cambodia I have experienced so far is magical. With its unwaveringly hospitable people, lush flat lands dotted with palm trees, brightly coloured houses on stilts and the landscape punctuated with majestic temples glistening gold in the morning sunshine – you can’t help but be...
It is the end of day three and our last day in Kampong Cham district, a rural province 70km north east of Phnom Penh. In their latest video diary, Jess and Sue reflect on what they have seen and learnt over the past two days, how facilities, treatment and care differ from home and why continued support from The Global Fund is more important than ever.
Tomorrow we will be returning to Phnom Penh to shadow doctors and nurses on the drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) ward at CENAT...
Bringing health services closer to the community has helped to drastically increase the number of people accessing healthcare in Cambodia, including treatment for tuberculosis. Today, we accompanied a mobile outreach clinic to Srosomthmy village and Proy village in Momot district to diagnose potential cases of TB and to meet with patients completing treatment at home. To find out more about what we saw and the services transforming patients lives in rural and hard-to-reach communities, check...
Last year, tuberculosis surpassed HIV as the world’s leading infectious killer. Whilst the impact of the epidemic is felt most acutely in developing countries, TB rates are on the rise in the west, including here in the UK and in London especially - the former TB capital of Western Europe. Two health professionals on the frontline of the fight against the disease in London are Jess and Sue, a doctor and nurse, each with over ten years experience providing treatment and care for TB patients...
We will, she will: the tagline chosen for the Girls’ Education Forum. It’s positive, empowering and speaks with an effective simplicity that we are often guilty of overlooking. Who will be the person to advance themselves, their society and their country? She Will. But without equity in accessing education then those advancements will stagnate. The message is simple, but the message from the Girls’ Education Forum was loud and clear. We need action.
At this year's National Conference "International development in a changing world", leading thinkers, campaigners and practitioners came together to debate the most current topics in international development. RESULTS campaigner Charlie Ensor has put together his reflections on what the role of the private sector, governments and institutions are in providing economic opportunities for all and overcoming poverty.
At our recent National Conference, we reminded ourselves that this year, it’s the 30th anniversary of RESULTS’ advocacy work in the UK, helping to keep the UK government’s eye firmly on the need reduce global poverty, working towards health, education and economic opportunities for all.
To mark the occasion, veteran RESULTS campaigner Sanjay Vaja from Macclesfield recited this amazing poem!
We describe RESULTS as a movement of active citizens exercising their personal and political power for change. What does this mean in reality? The RESULTS National Conference (11-13 June) – my first – answered this question pretty conclusively. It was an inspiring, challenging and exhausting three days spent with our grassroots campaigners, people who are not only keen to change the world for the better, but are actually out there doing it, sharing their concerns about...
The Ebola crisis has to date resulted in the loss of 11,315 lives. Malnutrition on the other hand, underlies nearly 3 million deaths year on year; that is over 8000 children dying every single day as a direct or indirect result of it.
This is not all - of roughly 700 million children under 5 years in the world, 159 million are too short for their age, 50 million are too thin for their height, and millions suffer from deficiencies of vitamins and minerals. None of these children are...
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