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Northern Beaches Advocate – See red for TB
Manly Town Hall was lit up red last week to mark World Tuberculosis Day. For the third year in a row, Manly Town Hall at Belgrave Street, Manly, joined dozens of buildings around Australia, and hundreds around the world, to light up red for World Tuberculosis (TB) Day...
The Advocate – North-West turning red for tuberculosis
Advocating: Central Coast mayor Jan Bonde said the illumination initiative was intended to make governments and members of parliament aware of the devastating health, social, and economic impacts of tuberculosis. Picture: Brodie Weeding. Infrastructure in Ulverstone...
Canberra Weekly – Carillon lights up red to mark World Tuberculosis Day
The National Carillon in Canberra will light up red tonight on World Tuberculosis Day, 24 March, to stand in solidarity with the 1.5 million people who die of Tuberculosis (TB) each year. It will be one of the numerous iconic locations across Australia showing their...
The National Tribune – $450m needed to fight deadly disease resurgent 5km from Australia’s front door: World TB Day
The Australian Government needs to commit $450 million to fighting tuberculosis, say Results International (Australia) and Pacific Friends of Global Health, as the global death toll rises for the first time in a decade while COVID-battered regional health systems...
The Guardian – As tuberculosis resurges in the Asia Pacific, what lessons from Covid can save Australia? Brendan Crabb and Negaya Chorley
In 2020, 1.5 million people died due to tuberculosis. For First Nations Australians, the rate of TB infection is six times higher than the rest of the population. Photograph: Mahesh Kumar A/AP When the pandemic unfolded, vital resources were diverted away from...
Believing in Overseas development assistance – For a Better World by Dr Peter Graves
“Peter: would you like to come to a meeting that has the potential to save the lives of 40,000 children every day?” In 1986, this innocuous-sounding call from a work colleague was coincidental with helping save the life of a child in Canberra, one week earlier. With...
‘Modern Slavery’ by Results Advocate, Anika
I am Anika and I attended the ACFID conference and especially loved the story of how survivor-led civil society organisations are transforming their communities - the case of bonded labour in Chennai, India Eradicting modern slavery is a vital part in attaining the...
‘Financial empowerment of minority groups in the Indo-Pacific region is the essential, logical and foundational step towards alleviating systemic poverty’ by Results Advocate, Tom
I am Tom and I attended the ACFID conference and especially loved the discussions around systemic poverty alleviation through financial empowerment of minority groups. Despite auspicious international aid programs, poverty amongst minority groups in the Indo-Pacific...
‘Decolonisation as essential not as an option for international development’ By Results Grassroots Coordinator, Jawoon Kim
My name is Jawoon and I attended the ACFID conference and I was especially drawn to the discussions about the importance of decolonisation for international development. In May 2020, the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis instigated the...
‘The Role of Local Actors in Protracted Crises’ By Results Advocate, Killki
I’m Killki and I attended the ACFID conference this year and I really liked to understand more how local actors play a critical role in planning, advising, implementing and evaluating aid initiatives within ‘global minority’ countries. In countries experiencing...
Happy International Volunteer Day: A journey around the world
Results Australia belongs to a partnership called ACTION, which brings together advocacy organisations from around the world. Many of us have grassroots volunteer campaigners and advocates at the heart of what we do. So to mark International Volunteer Day, we...
‘Disability inclusive COVID-19 response across Asia and the Pacific’ By Results Advocate, Bruna
I am Bruna and I attended the ACFID conference and especially loved the story of how the National Federation of the Disabled Nepal (NFDN) worked during the COVID-19 pandemic to establish disability inclusive structures to enhance capacity and promote meaningful...