Tuberculosis—a preventable and curable disease— has the infamous title of being the leading infectious disease killer in the world. It now kills more people than HIV & AIDS. In 2017, 10 million fell ill with TB and needed treatment, including one million children, 3.2 million women and 5.8 million men (according...
Readers of ‘The Mercury’ in Hobart discovered on Thursday March 21, that “TB continues to be the top infectious killer, claiming more than 4300 lives every day,” as written by Micheal Picone, Volunteer with RESULTS Australia, in a letter to the Editor. Read on to discover more of what he had...
Sydney Town Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, Brisbane City Hall, Newcastle City Clock-Tower, Adelaide Town Hall, Launceston Town Hall, Trafalgar Bridge in Perth, Darwin Convention Centre and key landmarks in Cairns, Logan City (QLD) and Tasmania joined the global movement to ‘Light up the World for TB’ on Sunday, March 24, 2019....
What is TB’s impact in the world? Did you know that tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious disease globally? It caused the deaths of 1.6 million people (the population of Adelaide) in 2017. TB in Australia Within Australia, an estimated one million people live with the latent (non-infectious) variant of...
Be a part of our World TB Day social media campaign. World TB Day on Sunday March 24 highlighted the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and the efforts made to eliminate the disease. At present, an estimated one million Australians live with latent (non-infectious) TB. 1.6 million people globally died...
Status of polio globally Wild poliovirus continued to circulate in Afghanistan last year, with 21 people recorded with polio, and 12 people in Pakistan. This is despite the fact that both countries undertook new vaccination campaigns through the National Emergency Action Plan, with a focus on closing any immunity gaps. ...
Chris Franks, ‘The North Shore Times’, published on Thursday February 14, 2019. “I write regarding the article concerning hundreds of kids being at risk of disease (‘North Shore Times’ Feb. 7). While I am delighted to see the Health Department working to help parents vaccinate on time, I am shocked...
(Photo courtesy of Gavi) Did you know? There are nearly 20 million un-vaccinated and under-vaccinated children in the world today. “Over the last two years, the world has seen multiple outbreaks of measles, diptheria and various other vaccine-preventable diseases,” states the World Health Organization. An estimated 6.3 million children under...
(Photo courtesy of globalfund.org.au) By Shiva Shrestha, Global Health Campaign Manager and Mark Rice, Policy & Advocacy Manager at RESULTS Australia A breakthrough in identifying multiple diseases within minutes via a single drop of blood, was made recently by researchers from the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and...
