Updates from the Field
Marching for TB
RESULTS' Paul Jensen participates in a march in Cape Town demanding better diagnostics and access to treatment for tuberculosis.
The Power of Activism: TB vs. HIV
RESULTS' Paul Jensen reports from the 2009 International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape Town, South Africa on why a lack of public activism around tuberculosis has slowed progress, while advocacy for HIV/AIDS has yielded huge successes.
Appointment of RESULTS US Director should bring hope to those who rely on Global Fund support
Last Friday, Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS in the USA was selected for the position of Board Member for the Developed Country NGO Delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. Since it was first conceived eight years ago, Joanne and RESULTS has been fully engaged with the Global Fund, in particular playing an important role in resource mobilisation.
Obama’s Global Health Plan’s Missing the Money
Yesterday President Obama announced a new "Global Health Initiative." Gayle Smith from the National Security Council and Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, the chief of staff's brother, summoned a number of my colleagues to the Old Executive Office building early yesterday to announce this new initiative with great excitement.
Should we all be excited?
Michel Sidibe, Director of UNAIDS, Takes on TB/HIV
Matt Kavanagh
Today Michel Sidibe, the newly appointed executive director of UNAIDS took the organization in a bold new direction. Under his predecessor, founding director Peter Piot, TB was given little attention by UNAIDS. But today, Michel Sidibe came to Rio to tell the world that TB/HIV will be one of his key priorities. Given that it's the biggest killer of people living with HIV that seems only fitting.
Who should pay the bill for stopping TB?
Louise Holly - RESULTS UK
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that the amount of funding for TB in the 22 countries with the highest burden has more than doubled since 2002. At first glance this seems like great news but closer analysis of the data shows that we still have a long way to go to fully fund the global TB response.
Michael Riggs from the Stop TB Partner’s Forum in Rio de Janeiro
Michael Riggs
Today at the Stop TB Partner´s Forum in Rio de Janeiro, indigenous leaders and community members representing approximately 370 million indigenous people globally, in over 70 countries, launched the Stop Global Indigenous TB Initiative and a strategic framework that would guide national TB control programs to work with these communities.
