Throughout 2022, RESULTS UK staff have worked hard to engage politicians and decision makers in our mission to end global poverty. The collective impact of these advocacy efforts saw greater resources allocated to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, as well as commitments to polio eradication and nutrition policy.
Alongside this work, our dedicated grassroots network continued their strong advocacy efforts with over 100 actions taken throughout the year. This included...
There is a need for accountability across the global health and development sector to ensure that commitments made by global, regional, national and subnational leaders are met. This need for accountability is particularly important for the world’s most deadly yet most overlooked infectious disease - Tuberculosis (TB).
Building strong systems for TB requires not just global commitment, but a promise to...
We know that COVID-19 will not be the last pathogen with pandemic potential; the chances of a similar outbreak are between 47% and 57% within the next 25 years. The increasing inevitability of infectious disease outbreaks means the world desperately requires an end to the unsustainable funding cycle for vaccine research and development (R&D).
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) aims to overcome the misfortune that typically characterises vaccine R&D by...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed existing inequalities in the global health architecture that existed prior to the pandemic. These inequalities have in turn contributed to disparities in access to vaccines and other tools and disruptions as well as backsliding of essential primary health care (PHC) services, reversing decades of progress in global health. In addition to the indirect impacts of the pandemic efforts to curb it, including the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, have highlighted the...
Since its launch in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has successfully led global efforts to reduce the incidence of poliovirus infections. From a world where 1,000 children were paralyzed each day across 125 countries, the number was down to six cases of wild polio in 2021, primarily in the two endemic countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Cases of polio, particularly variant polioviruses (cVDPV), still emerge too frequently in populations with...
Even before the emergence of COVID-19 and the mass school closures that followed, a staggering 90% of children in low-income countries could not read and understand a simple text when they reached their 10th birthday, a benchmark which the World Bank uses to define “learning poverty”. Illustrating the scale of global inequality on literacy, the exact inverse of this statistic is true in high-income countries where 9 in 10 children can read with comprehension at the age of 10....
In 2021, amidst the turbulence of a troubled world, RESULTS UK celebrated its 35th anniversary. It was a year which required us to find new ways to create change on the issues we care about, and it was ever-more important to us that our methods also embodied our values.
Several of our funders have recognised this and have increased their investments so that we can confront the challenges we see in global health, education and nutrition. Our work on COVID vaccine equity is challenging...
When the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 brought the world to a standstill in 2020, immunisation programmes worldwide were disrupted like almost every other health programme. The disruption was mainly due to the understandable diversion of resources to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as well as mobility restrictions stopping people from accessing healthcare or health workers reaching out to populations that are marginalised.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global livelihoods, routine health services and education, and officially caused the deaths of over 6 million people, with WHO estimates putting that figure at approximately 15 million when taking both direct and indirect deaths into account. This report outlines and assesses some of the UK Government's decisions when responding to the COVID-19 pandemic internationally. It explores how the UK pre-ordered excessive quantities of COVID-19 vaccines...
Since its creation, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has supported local organisations around the world to reduce the number of deaths from the three diseases drastically, as well as working to strengthen health systems globally. This work is all the more important in the face of crisis, like the Russian invasion of Ukraine launched on 24th February 2022.
Prior to the outbreak of war, the Global Fund already invested $850m in Ukraine, where HIV and...
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