On the last day of our National Conference, we spent a very enjoyable and informative morning at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, as we visited the prestigious Human Immunology Laboratory (HIL).
We are now half way through the Live Below the Line challenge. In this guest blog post from Frances Hague, group leader of the Newcastle RESULTS group, Frances reflects on the challenge so far and what meals she has been making. Have a read and share with your friends.
Day 1
I'm nervous and excited for the start of LBTL today - and so pleased with how many lovely people have sponsored me!
Despite the focus on hunger and poverty in the MDGs, under nutrition remains a problem of almost unimaginable proportions. In 2010 it was estimated that 925 million people in developing countries were suffering from some form of under nutrition- that’s up from 824 million in 1990.
There are many causes of this problem: an unfair global food system that favours large scale industrial food production over...
On Monday 29th April the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases held a meeting, in the UK Parliament, to discuss the importance of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in the fight against the three diseases. Despite prorogation (marks the end of a parliamentary session and Parliament goes into recess until...
Today is the official launch of Live Below the Line 2013. As many of you begin to undertake the challange, here are some recent personal blog posts from Milly Hooke, a grassroot volunteer in London who took the challange last week. Hopefully some of her posts and recipe ideas will encourage you as you embark on this difficult but thought-provoking challange.
Can I really Live Below the Line?
Having attended many grassroots campaigning meetings with Results UK, a charity...
Official Development Assistance (ODA) that is dedicated to basic nutrition programmes represents only 0.4% of total aid, according to a new report that analysed figures from 2011. Although some countries are showing leadership in this field, resources and political will remain insufficient to eradicate world hunger. In 2010 the World Bank estimated that an increase of US$10.3 billion in annual financial resources would end under-nutrition. But since then, basic nutrition ODA has increased by...
Imagine a world without AIDS, TB and malaria. It seems impossible, given that these are the world’s top three infectious disease killers. Yet right now we have a historic opportunity to eliminate these diseases as public health threats.
Defeating these diseases has been at the forefront of global health efforts since the new century began, backed with the political will of Millennium...
In this guest blog post, Laura Kerr, leader of the Glasgow RESULTS group, reflects on her weekend at the RESULTS National Conference 2013.
I wrote this blog post as I made the 5 and a half hour journey back to Glasgow after the Results National Conference 2013; and I’m very happy to say that no matter how many hours I would have to spend on a train to get to the conference I would.
This week in parliament, the APPG on Global Tuberculosis (TB) launched a major new report that calls on the UK Government to take a two-fold approach to tackling the increasing public health threat of TB in the UK and worldwide.
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