Earlier this month, grassroots advocates from around the world came together to to ask Alice Albright, CEO of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) , how increased support for the Partnership will help to get more children in school and what they as advocates can do to galvanise greater support for education from their governments. With RESULTS grassroots groups joining from the UK, Australia, US and Canada, the call demonstrated that...
We are now just 6 weeks away from our annual National Conference that will look at some of the new ideas and technologies that are irreversibly changing the way development is done. The sessions for the conference have now been finalised; see below for full details.
Session 1: Doing it for themselves: national and grassroots development successes that are breaking the mould Hear from world-leading organisations taking novel, dynamic approaches to changing the world.
Yesterday, March 24th, marked the 19th annual World TB Day and we saw an amazing day of advocacy, action, media, and high level announcements of new funding and policy from key organisations working on the global TB response.
RESULTS kicked off our day with a briefing in our offices with a group of advocates from around the UK. As people arrived at our office they were chatting about the article they had read in...
The fifth and final blog in our World TB Day series comes from Tom Maguire in the form of a photo story from his recent trip to Romania. During two weeks in December, Tom visited hospitals, sanatoriums and prisons to meet with drug-resistant TB patients and the doctors and nurses assisting them with their treatments. These photos of some of the people he met visualise both the severity of the treatment and the loneliness and isolation that many patients feel being away from their loved ones...
Today is our fourth and penultimate blog series on TB in the run up to World TB day on March 24th. Rosezenny is from the Phillipines, a country with a high burden of TB; demonstrating the truly global nature of this disease.
When 41 year old Rosezenny Revilla of Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines was diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis her whole world came crashing down. As a married mother of three children and a grade school teacher she faced the question “why me...
This year, the theme of World TB Day on March 24th is “Reach the 3 million.” Advocates, researchers, experts, and communities around the world are rallying around a call to reach the 3 million people who have tuberculosis (TB), but do not receive the care they need.
This year, the theme of World TB Day on March 24th is “Reach the 3 million”. Advocates, researchers, experts, and communities around the world are rallying around a call to reach the 3 million people who each year contract TB but do not receive the care and support they need. In the run up to World TB Day, we will be posting a different blog each day to profile the disease from a variety of perspectives. Today our post comes from Amy McConville; Amy is a TB patient/advocate from the UK who works with the TB Action Group (TBAG). This is her TB story:
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