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“You are key to the fight to have health high on the political agenda.”

Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund, addressing RESULTS activists, July 2008

What has RESULTS in the UK achieved on global health issues?

Tuberculosis

See also "Tackling TB".

RESULTS helped to create an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Tuberculosis in October 2006, and were appointed as the new group’s secretariat.
In March 2007, the APPG on Global TB launched its first report: Scaling up the UK’s response to the Global TB epidemic: an Agenda for Action.
In November 2007 RESULTS produced a report assessing the UK’s response to the TB/HIV co-epidemic. An Inadequate Response highlighted the failure of the UK government and NGOs to fully incorporate TB in their response to HIV and AIDS. In response to this report, Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised that TB would be included in DFID’s new AIDS strategy.
RESULTS organised five opportunities for advocates and experts from high TB burden countries to visit the UK and brief decision-makers, NGOs and the media.
We took delegations of MPs, MEPs, and members of the House of Lords on educational visits to the Ukraine, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and India. These enabled decision-makers to witness the impact of TB first-hand, and prompted many of them to take action to further the campaign on their return to the UK.
In 2006, RESULTS secured commitment from the three main political party leaders, Tony Blair, David Cameron and Menzies Campbell, to the ‘Global Call to Stop TB’.
In 2007, the G8 committed to supporting the implementation of the Global Plan to Stop TB, following efforts by RESULTS and other partners to get TB onto the G8 agenda.
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) committed £1 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria over 8 years; made a 20-year commitment to UNITAID (an initiative to reduce the cost of treatment for AIDS, TB and Malaria); pledged to support the cost of TB drugs in India through the Global Drug Facility, and supported the Global TB Drug Alliance in its development of new, more effective TB drugs.
The World Bank committed itself to do more to address the TB emergency in Africa following a joint campaign by RESULTS in the UK, Canada, Japan and USA.

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