Hello everyone, my name is Danielle Lasley and I have just begun volunteering at RESULTS. I will be assisting with communications work and gra ssroots planning for the national conference in May. I will be organizing conference materials and researching potential venues and speakers to speak about the importance of combating the TB epidemic. I will also work on news blogs and utilize tools...
Tom Maguire from the campaigns team at RESULTS spent two weeks during December in Romania creating a short video and photo-story on drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). In this blog post he discusses some of the innovative measures that have been introduced in Romania’s prisons to reduce TB rates.
Despite having one of the highest rates of TB and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in Eastern Europe (30,000 people currently have TB in Romania and 1,500 people die from it every...
We are pleased to announce that a recording of our January grassroots conference call is now available for download. The call launches our 2013 advocacy on the issue of TB among gold miners in Southern Africa.
Our guest speak on the call was Patrick Osewe who is Lead Health Specialist for the Southern Africa region of the World Bank and is very engaged with the Bank's continuing efforts at...
Salary: £26,000 to £29,000 per year depending on experience
Location: Vauxhall, South London
Closing date: Thursday 30th January, 5pm.
We have an exciting opportunity for a well organised advocate to join our team as a Nutrition Advocacy Officer. The role will be responsible for implementing our nutrition work to build on the...
In February this year, the great and the good of the African mining world will come together for their annual 'Indaba', the yearly industry investment conference.
This represents a golden opportunity to mobilise the vital political will needed to drive real, lasting change for thousands of miners and their families. Its time to be bold and ambitious and call on the UK to do everything they...
RESULTS UK Health Advocacy Officer, Megan Wilson-Jones reflects on the findings of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, launched in London on 3 rd December 2013.
Earlier this month, distinguished global health professionals convened in London’s Royal College of Physicians to attend the launch of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health - Global health 2035: a word converging within a generation....
Last week, RESULTS staff were in South Africa running advocacy trainings for partners from across Africa. Steve Lewis describes how plans changed when Nelson Mandela died:
[caption id="attachment_14175" align="alignright" width="225"] 'Mandela set us free'. An emotional morning in Cape Town workshop[/caption]
Our trainings were progressing smoothly last week in Cape Town – we had ten partners in one...
The ACTION partnership thanks world leaders for the unprecedented commitments they have made to scale up the global fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Today, world leaders gathered in Washington D.C. to commit a total of US $12 billion over the next three years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the largest amount ever committed to fighting the three diseases. These pledges represent a 30% increase...
On Thursday last week, at a special parliamentary event in the run-up to World AIDS Day, Lynne Featherstone MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, formally launched the update of the DFID HIV Position Paper “Towards Zero Infections - Two Years On” . The paper examines the 2011 Position Paper after an extensive review process led by...
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