The Stop TB Partnership, World Bank, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are organising a large collaborative workshop on combating TB in the Mining sector in South Africa. The workshop titled 'A Collaborative Effort to Tackle Complex Health Service Delivery Challenges: Addressing Tuberculosis in the Mining Sector in Southern Africa' will take place in Cape Town on September 30th.
South Africa has half a million mine workers, employed in approximately 2,000 mines and...
On September 12th, MPs will debate whether to enshrine into law a UK Government commitment to spend 0.7% of the UK's income on overseas aid. We look at what this Bill could achieve and how you can take action to ensure it moves forward.
Politics is not always business as usual . Our UK Parliament usually debates and votes on policies and laws put forward by the Government. But every year, a few lucky MPs get drawn out of a hat and have the chance to put forward ‘Private...
On September 12th, we have an historic opportunity to make our secure the future of UK aid spending. That day, MP's will be voting on Michael Moore MP's Private Member's Bill which seeks to enshrine our commitment to spending 0.7% of our Gross National Income on Overseas Aid.
On the day, we need to make sure that 100 supportive MPs are in the chamber and voting - we're working hard with our partners from across the sector to ensure that MP's know that they have to be there...
I am 33 years old and that was physically the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
I've just walked to and from work for three days in a row… that’s 10.5 miles each way, 63 miles in total. The two children from Rwanda who inspired me to do this challenge – whose names I shall probably never know – are around ten years old and for them, it's a weekly routine.
Following in their footsteps gave me time to reflect (about 21 hours of...
The last week has been one which has delivered some very good, and some very bad news in the fight against the TB epidemic in Southern Africa's gold mines. It seems natural that this would be the case, so widespread and diffuse is the problem. Just as a solution seems to be appearing, a new problem arises.
Let's start with the good news.
On Wednesday last week, South African Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe announced new plans for a partnership between mines and the...
This World Humanitarian Day, Dexter Chagwena, a Research Nutritionist from the University of Zimbabwe, and Rufaro Charity Madzima, an independent Nutrition Consultant, reflect on acute malnutrition in Zimbabwe, how the condition is becoming increasingly prevalent during periods of stability and what needs to be done to make efforts more sustainable.
Zimbabwe is no stranger to humanitarian crises. Over the past few years the country has experienced...
To mark World Humanitarian Day, Sabrina de Souza, Nutrition Advocacy Co-ordinator at RESULTS UK, discusses why acute malnutrition is an everyday emergency.
When you see an image of an emaciated child, what’s your instant reaction? You wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that this child may be caught in the middle of some humanitarian emergency, such as a drought or a famine. It is a common outcome of such crises. Millions of children — 52...
Hello everybody, my name is Sveta McGill and I have just joined RESULTS UK as Health Advocacy Officer. I originally come from Kiev, Ukraine, but have been in the UK since 2010 doing a PhD at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. My PhD thesis researched the impact of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) on HIV prevention policies and services in Ukraine which has the leading HIV rates in the European region.
This summer, Gill Price from the Stort Valley group will be doing five different local walks as part of her Footsteps for Futures challenge. To keep us updated on her challenge, Gill has created her own blog where she will be posting updates on how she is getting on. Have a read of her first post below and check out the rest of her posts over the next month directly from her blog ....
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