In exactly one week, leaders and development ministers from around the world will gather in Berlin for the replenishment of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Established in 2000, Gavi is a public-private partnership which seeks to fund vaccines in the world’s poorest countries. The below statement highlights concern among civil society organisations across the globe about the potential funding shortfall if donors do not step up and ensure Gavi reaches its target of US$7.5 billion for 2016-...
2014 campaign updates Constituency Champion training reminders The importance of 2015 Group general election campaign progress updates, challenges and successes The action/2015 campaign (with guest speaker Tom Baker, Head of Campaigns and...
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again, and we’ll keep saying it for the next 12 months: 2015 is THE year to take action and begin to see the end of global poverty.
RESULTS UK's Executive Director, Aaron Oxley , shares the story of Phumeza Tisile, who defeated XDR-TB after a long and arduous treatment that caused her to lose her hearing. Phumeza has become a powerful advocate within the TB community, fighting to ensure others do not have to endure what she has. Aaron writes here to thank her for sharing her story, and to share how we all can help her to regain her hearing...
Kenya is a country with a high tuberculosis (TB) burden: it is currently ranked fourth in Africa of countries with high TB incidences, only behind South Africa, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. In addition to this, the TB/HIV co-infection rate stands at 40%.
Early in 2014, Kenya reported a looming shortage of TB drugs, resulting from a lack of funding allocation for first-line TB drugs in fiscal year 2013/2014. As a result of this gap, the country used up all of the buffer TB stocks of first-...
On Tuesday, we hosted the first webinar of our General Election campaign to get you up to speed on everything you need to know to kick start your campaign, including the:
This blog is part one of a two-part series on Ebola, highlighting two critical challenges in global health which have hindered the ability of the world to effectively respond to this emerging health threat. In the first blog we look at how weaknesses in health systems have undermined efforts to fight the disease. In the second, we explore how a lack of investment in research and development (R&D) for poverty-related diseases can have devastating consequences. The first blog comes...
Earlier this year, RESULTS UK led a cross party parliamentary delegation to Cambodia, and today we launch Steady Progress in Cambodia , a report which outlines our findings and recommendations from our experiences in South-East Asia.
The trip explored in detail some of the remaining health challenges in Cambodia’s, particularly its high rates of TB and under-five child mortality. The delegation was attended by Baroness Alison Suttie, Mark Pawsey MP, Michael Connarty MP and...
RESULTS UK is partner of the Generation Nutrition campaign which aims to bring civil society and the public together to end child deaths from acute malnutrition. Generation Nutrition is calling on world leaders to take urgent action to tackle acute malnutrition and step up the global efforts to end child deaths from this preventable disease. They will be taking this message to world leaders at the UN in New York early next year....
This post comes from Steve Lewis, RESULTS' Head of Global Health Advocacy.
Today the house of commons voted 146 to 5 to enshrine in law the Government's commitment to spending 0.7% of its gross national income on overseas aid and international development. I am delighted that the bill has passed its third reading and now passes to the House of Lords for further debate. All of us here in RESULTS look forward to the New Year when the bill will – hopefully - be finally approved and...
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