(Photo courtesy of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative 2019) The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is seeking to eradicate polio globally. To achieve its goal, it is seeking a total of $US 4.2 billion over five years to prevent new cases of polio arising in countries where the disease still exists and...
Congratulations to Bruce Boyd of Bruce in the ACT and Christine Chen of Applecross in WA for their letters to the Editor of ‘The Australian Financial Review’ published on Friday August 23, 2019. They wrote in response to an opinion article by Doctor Fiona Kotvojs on the impacts of diseases, in...
RESULTS volunteers around the country have been on fire since the RESULTS National Conference in June 2019 in Sydney! Nationally, volunteers have met with 10 MPs in three states (NSW, VIC, and ACT), where they informed MPs on the global status of tuberculosis, and the Global Fund and its upcoming...
(Image – left to right – Mark Rice, Policy & Advocacy Manager at RESULTS Australia, Amelia Christie, CEO of RESULTS Australia, Gerry Antioch, Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank and far right, Shiva Shrestha, Global Health Campaign Manager at RESULTS Australia) Last month, RESULTS Australia staff members Amelia Christie, Mark Rice...
(Image courtesy of The Global Fund – treatment for Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis) Media Release – Wednesday August 7, 2019 $13 MILLION TO COMBAT TUBERCULOSIS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION Senator Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Greg Hunt, Federal Minister for Health have announced a $13 million commitment to help...
More than 1 million children under five years of age in Papua New Guinea were immunised in June this year in a nationwide free vaccination campaign against three highly infectious diseases: measles, rubella and polio. Why? In 2018, Papua New Guinea saw its first polio cases in 18 years. The measles-rubella and polio...
(Image: From left to right – Doctor Mike Freelander MP, Sharon Claydon, Federal Member for Newcastle, Warren Entsch, Federal Member for Leichardt, Dr Andrew Leigh MP) Good news! A revitalisation of the Australian TB Caucus is currently under way! In case you didn’t know, the Australian TB Caucus (ATBC)...
Over the last week, several media articles have noted that Australia’s annual influenza season “started unusually early” and that “there are more than 144,000 confirmed cases,“ showing the severity of the virus this year. According to ‘Voice of America‘, “this year is likely to be one of Australia’s most severe for influenza, and the government, worried...
Did you know that 20 million children worldwide – that’s more than one in 10 – missed out on lifesaving vaccines, such as measles, diphtheria and tetanus in 2018? That’s according to new data out from the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Globally, since 2010, vaccination coverage with three doses of diphtheria, tetanus and...
