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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 report (5MB).

Download the executive summary (300KB).

Read the press release.

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 the letter to the Times signed by the Opposition Ministers for International Development, Chairs of All-Party Groups on AIDS, TB and Malaria and civil society organisations including RESULTS UK.

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.

Together, the team is expected to have raised £10,000 for RESULTS.

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