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Food price crisis: campaign success
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Last month the focus of the RESULTS action and conference call was rising global food prices, which have put up to 100 million people at risk of starvation. RESULTS activists wrote to their MPs to call on the UK to scale up its emergency response to the crisis, pointing out that the £30m it had committed so far was less than half the amount it gave to tsunami relief efforts. We called for a doubling of this figure and also urged action on the underlying long-term issues.
We were therefore delighted to note that at the World Food Summit in Rome on 3 June, Douglas Alexander announced a further £33m to help poor consumers buy food in Mozambique, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sierra Leone, four of the worst-affected countries, plus additional long-term investment to help African farmers. The World Food Programme also reported that the international community had responded positively to its appeal for $755m in emergency funding, and it was therefore scaling up its food aid programme in 62 countries worldwide.
Added 18 June 2008
RESULTS welcomes new DFID AIDS strategy
For several years RESULTS UK has been pressing for DFID to address the key issue of TB-HIV co-infection, which claims five million lives a year. We therefore welcome the recognition of this issue in the government’s new AIDS strategy, launched this week. In his speech at the launch event, Douglas Alexander made specific reference to the need for better integration of TB and HIV services, and also announced £6 billion in funding for health systems which will help to promote "closer integration of AIDS, TB, malaria" and other services.
This is the first time that any reference at all has been made to TB in DFID’s AIDS strategies – and it’s backed up by significant funding. We are really pleased that our hard work and the efforts of many others has paid off. We will now focus on how the £6 billion is going to be spent
and its impact measured.
Added 6 June 2008
TB survivor from Kenya to visit UK
Kenyan Lucy Chesire survived TB/HIV co-infection to become a key figure in the fight against the two diseases. Her campaigning has lead to TB being declared an emergency in Africa.
In a rare opportunity, Lucy Chesire is available for interviews in the UK from 2-4 June, before travelling to New York to participate in the first HIV-TB Global Leaders' Forum at the United Nations on 9 June 2008.
For details of Lucy's story and her availability, see this media notice.
Added 30 May 2008
A new RESULTS group was formed last week, centred on Oxford and with members from the Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire areas. We hope it’s the first of several new RESULTS groups that will be formed this year. If you would be interested in joining the group, or starting a RESULTS group where you live, then please contact Simeon Mitchell (simeon@results-uk.org).
Added 6 May 2008
RESULTS acknowledged in parliament
In a parliamentary debate on local TB services last week, Julie Morgan MP twice acknowledged RESULTS, first for having “inspired” the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB, and secondly for doing “a great job” in working with other groups to highlight these issues.
Added 6 May 2008
Anti-Poverty Party to support RESULTS in Leamington
Local bands will be performing live in support of RESULTS on Sunday 4 May. The Anti-Poverty Party will take place at the Clarendon, 44-46 Clarendon Avenue, Leamington, beginning at 8pm. Performers include Wolf and Bear, Ben Osborn, and an improv session rom Jaffa Rose. Entry is by £3 suggested donation on the door, with all proceeds to RESULTS.
Added 2 May 2008
Kenyan educational pioneer visits UK
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The woman who introduced free primary education to Kenya, Mary Njoroge, visited the UK to raise awareness of the issues which still prevent 72 million children globally from having the opportunity to go to school.
As Kenya’s director of basic education, Mary Njoroge oversaw an education revolution in 2003 when the country abolished school fees, which led to 2 million children going to school for the first time.
Mary was in the UK from 26-30 April as part of the Global Campaign for Education’s Global Action Week (21-27 April 2008). She met with a number of MPs and DFID officials to raise awareness of current barriers to education for all, and also spoke at a public event in Oxford organised by RESULTS.
For further details see this media notice.
Added 2 May 2008
RESULTS supports first World Malaria Day
Malaria is a global health emergency that knows no borders. It is also preventable and curable. RESULTS UK is supporting the first World Malaria Day on 25 April 2008, which is urging communities across the world to get involved in the fight against the disease.
Added 7 April 2008
In the run-up to World TB Day on March 24, RESULTS worked with the World Health Organisation and the Stop TB Partnership (of which RESULTS is a member) to launch the first global tuberculosis awareness campaign “I Am Stopping TB”, with football legend Luis Figo in London. Figo, the newly appointed Stop TB ambassador, and Dr Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal and the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Stop TB launched the campaign on 17 th March at the Hackney Free and Parochial C of E Secondary School, London. Figo took penalty shoot-outs with school children and held interviews with the media. The campaign aims to raise awareness of tuberculosis among the general public, opinion leaders, policymakers, and the scientific community. For more information visit www.stoptb.org/figo
The campaign launch fell on the same day as the release of the WHO's annual TB surveillance report Global Tuberculosis Control 2008. At the House of Commons, Dr. Katherine Floyd from WHO presented the findings of the report at a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis, attended by members of civil society organisations, health practitioners, and chaired by Nick Herbert MP. The report finds that worldwide efforts to confront tuberculosis are making progress, but too slowly, and highlights two aspects of the epidemic that threaten to further slow progress; multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and the combination of TB and HIV. The regions of Europe and Africa have shown disappointing progress and detection rates of TB in India and China have also slowed down. Dr. Jorge Sampaio said “...this is a restless battle. We still need to do much more and much better.”
The Prime Minister also assured RESULTS that the government "takes the issue of TB and HIV co-infection very seriously." The letter, dated 2 January 2008 was in response to a letter sent to the Prime Minister by Sheila Davie who also sent the PM a copy of our recent report on TB/HIV co-infection.
To see the full text of the letter please click here.
UK fails to adequately address TB/HIV. New report from RESULTS UK calls on UK government and civil society to do more to address the co-epidemic. 28/11/07
The UK is failing to effectively address the joint and resurgent TB/HIV epidemic, according to a report published today by RESULTS UK.
‘An Inadequate Response: More than Two Decades of Complacency in the TB/HIV Co-Epidemic', assesses Government funding and policy for TB/HIV and the response of UK-based civil society organisations. It finds that both have failed to adequately implement coordinated TB/HIV activities despite the known benefits of an integrated approach and the fact that the co-epidemic was first acknowledged over two decades ago. Such a failure has resulted in millions of unnecessary deaths.
Download the executive summary (300KB).
MP Nick Herbert calls for international leadership to address the "scandal" of 1.6 million TB deaths every year 14/11/07
Following a recent visit to South Africa to attend the World Conference on TB and Lung Disease, Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert called for international leadership to address the “scandal” of 1.6 million deaths across the globe every year as a result of TB.
Mr Herbert, who is Co-Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global TB addressed the Conference on Cape Town as part of a fact-finding visit to learn more about the impact of TB and HIV in Africa.
Read Nick Herbert's press release.
Global Efforts to fight TB undermined as Replenishment Conference draws to a close 26/09/07
Earlier this week, the UK announced an eight-year pledge of £1 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. This pledge includes £360 million for the three-year period 2008-2010.
Though the longer-term pledge is welcomed, RESULTS UK was deeply disappointed about the amount pledged, since it involved only a slight increase on the UK's current annual contribution to the Global Fund.
Along with other civil society organisations and Members of Parliament, RESULTS UK had been calling on the UK Government to commit £700 million for the three-year period 2008-2010.
Read RESULTS UK's press release in response to the UK's announcement
Fringe meetings at Party Conferences 30/08/07
In collaboration with Action for Global Health and the European Alliance against Malaria, RESULTS is organising a fringe meeting at each of this year's Party conferences with a focus on the health MDGs. Parliamentarians and key speakers from the field will discuss what action needs to be taken to achieve the four MDG targets relating to health.
The dates of the meetings are:
- Liberal Democrat fringe meeting – Tuesday 18 September, Brighton
- Labour fringe meeting – Tuesday 25 September, Bournemouth
- Conservative fringe meeting – Monday 1 October, Blackpool
Meetings are open to members of the public. Click here to download a copy of the invitations.
RESULTS UK acknowledged in Parliament 06/06/07
RESULTS UK received praise today from Tom Clake MP for its work on TB and sanitation today in a Westminster Hall debate on water and sanitation.
Tom, who participated in a Parliamentary delegation to India with RESULTS in March, said:
Recently, that excellent organisation Results UK, which is doing wonderful work in this field and particularly on tuberculosis, encouraged a number of us, including my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland (Dr. Ashok Kumar), to visit India. Although we were focusing on tuberculosis, it was obvious to us that ... water and sanitation [is] pivotal in trying to find a solution to that problem and to many others.
Click here to read the full debate.
TB/HIV advocate Lucy Chesire visits the UK 06/06/07
Lucy Chesire is a health nutritionist from Eldoret in Kenya and advocacy consultant for tbAction Kenya. tbAction Kenya and RESULTS UK are two partners in the Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION) Project. During Lucy's visit to the UK, she was invited to support RESULTS UK's work in raising the profile of TB and TB/HIV among decision makers and NGOs.
Lucy with (L-R) Christian Baeza, Andrew George MP and Joy Phumaphi.
Click here to read more about Lucy's visit.
RESULTS UK leads call on G8 to commit to fight TB 05/06/07
RESULTS UK invited individuals and organisations involved in the fight against TB to sign on to a letter to Tony Blair urging the G8 to commit itself to fighting TB.
A copy of the letter was published today in the Guardian.
Team RESULTS completes the Three Peaks Challenge 29/05/07
Staff, volunteers and supporters of RESULTS successfully completed the Three Peaks Challenge last weekend.
Over three days the team of seventeen climbed the highest peaks of each of Great Britain's three countries - Ben Nevis (1344 m), Snowdon (1085 m), and Scafell Pike (978 m) - overcoming wind, rain, hail and snow to reach each summit.
Team RESULTS at the foot of Ben Nevis
Together, the team is expected to have raised £10,000 for RESULTS.
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