[caption id="attachment_14142" align="alignleft" width="200"] Checking for undernutrition at a health post in Chanika community[/caption]
Two British MPs recently visited Tanzania with staff from RESULTS UK, on a delegation which aimed to assess possibilities for improved early childhood development. The delegation visited education and nutrition programmes...
The end of the year is here, it’s time to celebrate success and plan for 2014!
2013 has been another really successful year for us here at RESULTS. This month we are going to be sharing in our successes of the past 12 months and taking time together to look ahead at our opportunities and campaigns for 2014.
The guest blog post comes from Mark Pointer, group leader of the Norwich RESULTS group. Mark recently met with two colleagues from Kenya to discuss how Kenya’s health service provision differs from the UK and what needs to be done to address the global shortage of health workers.
I work at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Microbiology Laboratory and in recent weeks we...
Felix Jakens, Grassroots Campaigns Manager at RESULTS, was recently asked to write an article on TB in the gold mining industry in southern Africa for the Medcin magazine . Here it is in its full glory:
“If TB and HIV is a snake wrapped around the continent, then the head is here in South Africa, and the fangs are in the mining industry” Dr Aaron Motsoledi, Minister of Health, South Africa
When I was asked to write a piece for the Medsin magazine titled ‘how the...
[caption id="attachment_14093" align="alignright" width="200"] Learning is mainly chalk and talk in this school (Kizuiani primary, in Bagamoyo). The children in this Form 3 class only have 1 text book between every 10 children. Credit: Steve Lewis[/caption]
A crucial investment of resources for schools and education systems has just been announced for twelve countries in Africa and two in Asia....
As you read this a small delegation of MPs are visiting Tanzania accompanied by RESULTS staff. During the next few days we will write a couple of blogs highlighting some of the issues we have been discussing. Here Steve Lewis notes some of the first learnings we have had visiting education and early childhood development projects.
“Children should be in school and learning”. This is the simple goal of one of the education NGOs working in Tanzania, and it seems so...
RESULTS UK Child Survival team commemorates World Pneumonia Day, 12th November 2013.
Today marks the 5th annual World Pneumonia Day, where the global health community call on leaders to scale-up existing interventions and invest in new technologies to tackle the leading cause of death in children under-five. Pneumonia is an infectious lung disease which kills more children than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. It is also one of the most overlooked conditions in...
Last week, we were lucky enough to be joined by Drs. Arne and Dalene von Delft and former TB Nurse Pat Bond from South African advocacy organisation TB Proof for a 'mini' advocacy tour on tuberculosis.
TB Proof was founded in 2012 by South African Health Care Workers and Students after multiple personal experiences with occupational tuberculosis - TB that is caught in as a result of your work . The informal alliance...
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