Publications
View ACTION partner publications from each of the following years or a complete list of all publications below.
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Complete List of ACTION Partner Publications
TB-HIV Report: The 1% Scandal - Living with HIV, Dying of TB
ACTION Partners (August 2008)
This report analyzes the most recent data available on
TB-HIV screenings and calls for universal access to high quality TB-HIV
care by 2015.
India Tuberculosis Control Report Card
Global Health Advocates and Center for Sustainable Health and Development (March 2008)
This report card looks at progress towards India’s promised complete coverage of the Indian population with high quality DOTS based TB treatment services.
Global TB Report Card for 22 TB High Burden Countries
Global Health Advocates and Health and Development Networks (2007)
This report card looks at the 22 countries which are home to over 80% of the world's TB cases, and shows the 15% increase since 2002 in curing infectious TB cases. It also shows the dangerous rise of drug-resistant TB that may threaten this progress.
An Inadequate Response: More Than Two Decades of Complacency in Addressing the TB/HIV Co-epidemic
RESULTS UK (November 2007)
Assessing the UK government level funding and policy for TB-HIV and the response of UK-based civil society organisations, this report finds that both areas have failed to coordinate TB-HIV activities, resulting in millions of unnecessary deaths.
ACTION Best Practices Guide
ACTION partners (November 2007)
In this guide, ACTION team members have compiled some of the more innovative tools, tactics and strategies that the ACTION project has so far developed or helped refine.
The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR): Achieving Impact Through Scale Up of TB-HIV Activities
RESULTS Educational Fund (May 2007)
This report describes PEPFAR's TB-HIV activities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and the United Republic of Tanzania. These programs demonstrate large gains toward controlling both TB and HIV that could be achieved through increased funding for TB-HIV activities.
1,000 Deaths a Day: The Unbearable Cost of TB in India
RESULTS UK (March 2007)
This report summarizes the activities and findings of a
parliamentary delegation to India led by RESULTS UK in 2007. It highlights
India's progress in scaling up DOTS treatment and coverage and the major
challenges to combating tuberculosis in India.
Scaling Up the UK’s Response to the Global TB Epidemic: An Agenda For Action
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis (March 2007)
Produced by the All Parliamentary Party Group (APPG) on Global Tuberculosis, this report outlines steps that the UK Government, and the Department for International Development (DFID) in particular, could adopt to increase its level of support for global TB control.
Responding to AIDS through the Youth (RAY) Newsletter
KANCO (2006)
This newsletter documents the experiences of the Responding to AIDS among Youth (RAY) project. The RAY project was established to encourage more young people to know their status and focus on abstinence. The project commenced in October 2004 and is funded by PEPFAR through Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
KANCO Brochure
KANCO (2006)
This publication gives a brief background of the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO), its vision, mission and core program areas.
Information Pack for People Living with HIV&AIDS on Human Rights
KANCO (2006)
This informational pack promotes knowledge, skills and understanding of HIV/AIDS as related to legal, ethical and human rights issues.
HIV&AIDS and its Treatment Information Pack: What You Should Know
KANCO (2006)
This information package is designed to provide crucial information in a simplified manner to diverse audiences, especially those living with HIV and care providers working at community level.
HIV/TB Report Card for 22 TB High Burden Countries
Global Health Advocates, Health and Development Networks, RESULTS, and the AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign (December 2006)
This report card shows the 2006 UNAIDS estimated prevalence of HIV in the 22 TB high burden countries and highlights the deadly synergy between the
two conditions, and the opportunity to save the lives of people living with HIV in these countries using standardized, effective and free TB treatments.
The Challenges of TB in Africa: Report of UK Delegation Rwanda and Kenya
RESULTS UK (September 2006)
Published by RESULTS UK after a 2006 Parliamentary Delegation to Africa, this report chronicles the main events of the trip and details some of the most pressing issues in the fight against TB on the African continent.
Enduring Neglect: The World Bank’s Inadequate Response to Africa’s TB Emergency
RESULTS Educational Fund (September 2006)
This report reveals that of $585 million allotted by the World Bank in 2005 for health programs in Africa, only $3.5 million (less than 1 percent) was devoted to TB in Africa. Of the World Bank’s total global spending on TB, less than 5 percent goes to Africa. The report recommends that the World Bank dramatically increase its TB funding in Africa.
Donor Report Card: Meeting the MDG for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
RESULTS Educational Fund, Health GAP, Global AIDS Alliance, Global Health Advocates, Advocates for Youth, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, Project RING, and Japan AIDS and Society Association (August 2006)
This report card grades major donor countries based on their current pledges to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM) for 2006 and 2007 compared to their corresponding fair shares. G8 countries continue to short-change this critically important funding mechanism, threatening the lives of millions who depend on it.
The Challenges of TB Control in Africa: UK Parliamentary Delegation to Kenya
RESULTS UK (September 2005)
This report documents a UK Parliamentary Delegation to Kenya in 2005. Members of Parliament went on site visits to a number of TB and TB-HIV programs and were given opportunities to discuss issues in great detail directly with patients, health workers, NGOs, the Kenyan Ministry of Health and representatives from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in Kenya.
Global Tuberculosis Control Report Card
Massive Effort Campaign and RESULTS Educational Fund (March 2005)
This report looks at what countries are succeeding and what countries are failing to respond to the TB epidemic.
India Tuberculosis Control Report Card
Massive Effort Campaign, Saahasee, and RESULTS International (March 2005)
In 2000, the Government of India pledged that 7 out of 10 people with infectious TB would be treated by these services, with at least 6 of them being cured by the end of 2005. This report card tracks the work done up to September 2004 to meet that commitment.
Integrating HIV/AIDS and TB Efforts: The Challenge for the President’s AIDS Initiative
RESULTS Educational Fund and the Open Society Institute (February 2004)
The report outlines ways to better integrate TB and AIDS efforts in the 14 countries slated for AIDS assistance by the Bush administration through expanding TB programs to reach all those HIV patients with TB and linking TB programs to HIV/AIDS voluntary counseling and testing (VCT).