Take Action
Want to make a difference right now? Take part in one of our featured actions.
Think TB is a Disease of the Past? Think Again! Tell Senate and House Not to Cut TB Funding!
Call attention to the immediate need to stop neglecting TB and increase funding and research for this deadly but preventable disease to save children's lives.
Time to act! Save a million lives from TB-HIV!
In many parts of the world, the epidemics of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis have merged together, forming a super-epidemic. The human toll is staggering. But new scientific modeling shows that we can reverse it, saving a million lives from TB-HIV disease between now and 2015.
Act now to help save a million lives.
Ask the U.S. Congress to Support GAVI Alliance's Work on Child Vaccines
This year, we need the U.S. Congress to support an appropriation of $175 million toward GAVI's work on child vaccines. Particularly, there are two brand new vaccines, one for pneumonia and the other for diarrhea-causing rotavirus. Getting these two vaccines to 44 nations could save 4 million kids under age 5 by 2015.
You are invited to write U.S. legislators and ask for support for child vaccines!
Visit the RESULTS Educational Fund website to take action now.
Demand Universal Access to TB-HIV Co-Treament
If universal access to existing high quality TB-HIV care and services become available by 2015, current mortality rates could be cut by 80 percent — saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year. Call upon leaders to make a commitment to universal access.
Write a letter to the editor about drug-resistant TB
WHO recently released a report about the rising incidence of drug-resistant TB. Look for a hook in your local paper – a story about other threatening diseases, homeland security, or poverty would do – and write a letter to the editor that warns drug-resistant TB is one of the biggest threats the world is facing.
Let your elected official know about the tragedy of TB-HIV through a video message
Winstone Zulu’s four brothers were living with HIV but killed by TB. Forward the video about his story and the deadly combination of TB and HIV to your elected official.
Action in Europe: Write a letter to your MEP and ask them to take action on the growing TB pandemic in Europe
The high incidence of TB in many countries in the European region, the high level of multidrug-resistant TB, the appearance of extensively drug-resistant TB, the TB outbreaks in the growing pool of people living with HIV, and the increasing mobility of people, all make tuberculosis a regional emergency in Europe that calls for effective region-wide control. Write to your Members of the European Parliament to highlight the growing problem, stressing the urgent need for immediate action to tackle this crisis.
Live in an ACTION Country? Volunteer with an ACTION Partner.
Volunteering your time with an ACTION partner is the best way to make a difference. Contact an ACTION partner about volunteer opportunities in their country.
Past Actions
Thanks to your taking action, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria have issued responses to your requests to address the TB-HIV co-epidemic. You can read their responses and join the online discussion here.
Your emails have also helped to create space for ACTION to continue working with PEPFAR, the Global Fund, as well as the World Bank, and the U.K. Department for International Development to address this serious issue.
Again, we here at ACTION appreciate your involvement in this important cause and look forward to your continued contributions through upcoming actions.
