May 18th is World AIDS Vaccine Day -- a reminder that the development of an effective, preventive AIDS vaccine remains a global priority. Read more

La vaccination et l’immunisation optimale des enfants est-elle définitivement vouée à ce semi succès ou semi échec suivant ou l’on se trouve ? Read more

For World Immunization Week, Member of European Parliament Ricardo Cortés Lastra discusses progress and challenges for scaling up and improving child health. Read more

As Kenya adjusts to a post-election environment under a new constitution, there is much optimism and opportunity to ensure we don’t lose momentum in our efforts to give every Kenyan child a shot at life. Read more

While the statistics are grim, only a story like Oxana Rucisineanu's can communicate the very real human impact of this disease on the residents of Europe. Read more

ACTION partner RESULTS UK traveled to Ethiopia with five UK parliamentarians to visit health programs and assess the effectiveness of UK support for poverty reduction in the country. Read more

After the election, Kenya will undergo immense changes as a new constitution is implemented -- including a devolution of health services. Read more

Stop TB Advocacy Officer David Bryden interviews a young Latina professional from Texas who recently recovered from multi-drug resistant TB and who is now fully cured. Read more

In Belarus, nearly one out of every two tuberculosis patients has a form of the disease that's resistant to, at the least, the two most powerful anti-TB medicines. Read more

Stop TB Advocacy Officer David Bryden interviews tuberculosis nurse Gini Williams on her training program to lessen TB stigma and improve patient care. Read more

As the second leading killer of kids under the age of five around the word, we can’t keep the conversation about diarrhea to polite company. Everyone should be talking about how to prevent and treat it! Read more

Steve Lewis, Global Health Advocacy Manager for ACTION partner RESULTS UK, attended the UNITAID board meeting where a $16 million grant to support child-friendly TB drugs was announced! Read more

Stop TB Advocacy Officer David Bryden interviews Tania Monteiro, a Portuguese nurse who contracted tuberculosis at work. Read more

David Bryden captured a video account of one doctor's battle with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - only about half of people diagnosed with this form of TB are cured and actually survive. Read more

Dagfinn Høybråten, Board Chair of the GAVI Alliance, on what he hopes will be achieved at the GAVI Partners' Forum in Tanzania this week. Read more

Endalkchew Fekadu from Ethiopia, a former tuberculosis (TB) patient, shares his experience of suffering from drug-resistant TB and his views on TB control. Endalkchew is the Managing Director of the Ethiopian Drug Information Network. Read more

RESULTS groups are hosting 41 screenings of the film, How to Survive a Plague, using the movie to spark a discussion not about how to END a plague. Read more

The TB community has the reputation of being highly technical. Precise. Subdued. But not this week. Read more

Michèle Striffler, Membre du Parlement Européen, demande: «Qu’attendons-nous pour agir et sauver un million de vies?» Read more

A guest blog by Dan Thomas, GAVI Alliance. The Great, the Good and the Glamorous are gathering in Washington DC this week to talk about some really big issues affecting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable children and adults. Anyone who is anyone in Global Health and Development is in town. Read more

Guest blog from Dr. Kate O’Brien Pediatrician, epidemiologist, Deputy Director of the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, Winner of the 2011 US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Read more

Two weeks ago, at 14 years of age, David shyly greeted me in his Kenyan community of Nyumbani, a special home that cares for orphaned children infected and affected by HIV. Read more

ACTION asked Jen Pollakusky, a Senior Public Policy and Advocacy Officer at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, to write a blog about current issues in childhood TB-HIV co-infection. The Foundation has a long history of advocating for child health and is a key ally in the fight against childhood TB-HIV. Read more

When I first got involved in the global TB world about eight years ago, one of my first questions was “Why don’t TB programs treat children with TB?” I was told basically, from a public health perspective, it was because children aren’t infectious. Well, as a mother of three, that rationale would not work for me if one of my children had TB. In fact, of course children with TB are treated in the U.S. It’s a different story for children in low-income countries that are always at the back of the line for everything, TB care being no exception. Read more

This week the ACTION Project is pleased to announce two important advocacy tools in the fight against TB in Europe. Read more

This year, RESULTS Canada began supporting the work of Dr. Santiago Ramón-García, a tuberculosis researcher at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Microbiology by helping to endorse his application for research funding from Grand Challenges Canada (http://www.grandchallenges.ca/). Dr. Ramón-García’s project seeks to identify new drug combinations of existing medications that combat tuberculosis with greater efficacy than current therapies. Read more