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Blog ArchiveMaking AIDS History: Update from amfAR Capitol Summit
Last week we attended a Capitol Hill summit, “Making AIDS History: Ending the Epidemic” organized by the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), marking the progress made to date and the incredible opportunity we have to turn the tide against the disease. The event boasted appearances by TV personalities Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Matthews, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby, Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria Director Dr. Michel Kazatchkine and members of Congress including House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) and Representative Mike Enzi (R-WY).
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Dr. Ramón-García listed amongst top influentials in Global Health by Grand Challanges Cana
This year, RESULTS Canada supporting the work of Dr. Santiago Ramón-García, a tuberculosis researcher at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Microbiology by helping to endorse his application for research funding from Grand Challenges Canada (http://www.grandchallenges.ca/). Dr. Ramón-García’s project seeks to identify new drug combinations of existing medications that combat tuberculosis with greater efficacy than current therapies.
We are happy to announce that Dr. Ramón-García has now been listed as one of 19 Canadian Rising Stars in Global Health by Grand Challenges Canada and will receive funding to help take his bold, idea to the next level.
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Breakthrough TB Study Finds Rapid TB Test Effective in Children
Diagnosing a child with TB is difficult — so difficult, in fact, that the vast majority of childhood TB cases go unreported. Most young children aren’t able to cough up the sputum (phlegm) needed to diagnose the disease, and the most widely used TB test only detects 10 to15 percent of childhood cases. But this may not be the case for much longer.
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Integrating TB Services With Maternal Health and HIV/AIDS Services: Moving From Data to Action
Elizabeth Do, RESULTS Educational Fund Global Health Intern, recently attended a talk on “Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: What Research Evidence Shows” at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. She left with more questions than answers. Questions that should embolden us to propose important changes in the intergration of health services not only in Kenya, but in the many areas where TB is prevalent.
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MDR-TB Patients Share Their Stories
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is daunting. Full stop. Enduring the toxic treatments and social isolation necessitated over the two years of treatment is something most of us cannot even imagine. Increased global attention to MDR-TB and intimidating statistics referring to the 440,000 cases of MDR-TB each year still obfuscate the heart of the issue: that going through MDR-TB treatment is something few of us understand.
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Notes from Sao Paulo: The Global Fund’s Partnership Forum
I am currently attending The Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria’s fourth Partnership Forum* in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Like everyone else in the room, I work on these issues every day and yet I was still moved during the opening plenary by a speech made by Jacqueline, a young Brazilian woman who contracted HIV/AIDS from her mother. Born with the disease, Jacqueline spoke about what it meant for her as a child to come to terms with the fact that she will have to live with the burden of it for the rest of her life, and be saddled with a daily dose of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that set her apart from her peers, reinforcing the already powerful stigma that she had to face.
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Thoughts from the UN High-level meeting on AIDS
(Blog contributed by David Bryden of the Stop TB Partnership) I was privileged to attend last week’s UN meeting on HIV/AIDS on behalf of the Stop TB Partnership. The highlight for me was seeing a diverse array of international civil society groups working to persuade negotiators from countries all over the world to take on bold commitments that would actually defeat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Despite some setbacks, there were some important victories thanks to this coordinated pressure! Online coverage of the UN meeting by Democracy Now gives a great sense of the momentum that was created, here’s an interview with ACTION TB-HIV champion Lucy Chesire.
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We Demand That World Leaders Keep Their Promises to Fight Global AIDS!
Hundreds of AIDS and TB activists took to the sweltering streets of midtown Manhattan today to demand that world leaders keep their promises to fight global AIDS. The march coincided with this week’s UN High Level Meeting on AIDS (or HLM, in acronym-happy UN parlance), which marks a decade since leaders convened and issued the first political declaration on AIDS.
Since then, leaders have issued a steady stream of promises, commitments, and speeches calling for the end of the epidemic. And while we’ve made historic gains against AIDS since then, the positive rhetoric on display at this week’s meeting belies a simple stark fact: AIDS funding is now declining.
If the trend continues, world leaders will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
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“Don’t Talk About Us. Talk to Us.”
That was one of the key messages of the In Women’s Words event sponsored by UN Women and UN AIDS in collaboration with the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS and the ATHENA Network as the United Nations’ high level meeting on HIV/AIDS got underway in NY this week. The session focused on focused on the specific needs of women in girls in the fight against HIV. The panel featured prominent speakers such as UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet, and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe. Dissapointingly, though the speeches were moving and passionate, there little mention of tuberculosis (TB) - the 3rd largest killer of women worldwide and the biggest killer of those living with HIV/AIDS.
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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. TB is the leading killer of people with HIV/AIDS, and 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. But world leaders must act. That’s why we need you. Leaders are convening this week at the United Nations to chart the future global response to HIV/AIDS. Join us in sending a million messages — fight AIDS and TB together to save a million lives!
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