Media Release Tuesday May 7, 2019 At 6.30pm on Wednesday May 15, a forum, ‘Adelaide and Australian Aid’ will be held in Napier Theatre 102 at the University of Adelaide. It is free to attend and all are welcome. Hosted by RESULTS International Australia, Campaign for Australian Aid and VGen-World Vision, the event...
Media Release Wednesday April 17, 2019 Did you know? There are nearly 20 million un-vaccinated and under-vaccinated children in the world today. The ongoing measles notifications in NSW alone have reached 36 since last Christmas, according to the NSW Department of Health, and the number of cases in Australia since the beginning of 2019 has reached 93 (similar to...
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. ...
By Shiva Shreshta, RESULTS Global Health Campaign Manager In September 2018, the global tuberculosis (TB) movement had its most important political moment in recent history, when country leaders and Ministers addressed the first-ever United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on tuberculosis (TB) in New York. The meeting was a critical moment...
November Digital Town Hall At the November Digital Town Hall, we reflected on the highlights from 2018, shared the key campaign moments for 2019 – World TB Day, the Federal Election, RESULTS National Conference, and how you can take part in our campaigns! Watch the recording here: Digital Town Hall...
Next week when I step aside as CEO, it will be almost 30 years since I wrote my very first letter to my federal MP – a garbled stream of consciousness fuelled by the fact that at that time, 40,000 children around the world were dying every single day from...
One Last Push to end polio, for good. Urge your MP to join the global effort for polio eradication by becoming a One Last Push champion on au.onelastpush.org today! The story so far In 2018, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative marks its 30-year anniversary. In the last 30 years, the...
Annabel Stafford writes: Fashion can be weird, but for a few decades in the middle of the 19th century it went completely nuts. All the cool kids wanted consumption—a disease that liquidises your lungs and drowns you in blood, or else causes your organs to fail. They painted their faces white,...
Thanks for joining our Digital Town Hall on the TB UN-HLM with guest speaker Nandita Venkatesan Nandita’s biography: Nandita Venkatesan is a journalist, a TEDx speaker, a classical dancer and a 2 time-Intestinal Tuberculosis survivor as well as patients-rights advocate. She lost over 90% of her hearing at 24,...
