September Grassroots Conference Call: Nutrition for Growth - it's time to commit!
In our September grassroots conference call, we focused on the issue of nutrition, with just weeks to go now before the important Nutrition for Growth Summit in early December. But that's not all! With the UN climate conference (COP-26) coming up in Glasgow, there's a great opportunity to use...
July Grassroots Conference Call
Our July conference call addressed the topic of COVID-19 Vaccine inequity. We discussed the necessity for countries with excess vaccines to urgently share doses with countries facing barriers to accessing vaccines.
Our expert guest speaker, Waiswa Nkwanga, Senior Associate at the...
The world was a very different place 100 years ago
In 1921, we were recovering from a major flu pandemic and the First World War. Telephones were still a rarity, and those that did exist were clunky, static and expensive. We were still five years away from the world’s first...
June Grassroots Conference Call: COVID-19 Vaccinations for All
On Tuesday 2 June, over 35 RESULTS UK grassroots advocates from all over the country (and internationaly!) joined our monthly conference call. It was the start of National Volunteers Week so we began the call with a big thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who give up their time to take...
“Callous and short-sighted.” What do the aid cuts mean for global health and education?
The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab recently confirmed the Government’s plans to slash global health and education funding in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century.
In a...
April 2021 Grassroots Conference Call - Building back better, brick by brick
For the April monthly grassroots conference call, we were joined by expert speaker Clare Symonds , Senior Policy Advocacy Officer for Tuberculosis at RESULTS UK. We discussed the April campaign to influence the outcome of the G7...
The never-ending but uplifting journey of mentoring
A guest blog post by Dr. Sylvia Anie, Mentor for Youth Leaders for Health in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Tanzania, 2020 - 2021.
Dr. Anie (centre) with some of the Youth Leaders for Health“A mentor is a counsellor, cheerleader, and a comrade who works purposefully to...
The interventions needed to realise Universal Health Coverage
On 12 December, the world will celebrate Universal Health Coverage Day , a day where we ask for more investments into health systems that protect us all. At the end of a year heavily disrupted by COVID-19, we need to collectively ask for...
In conversation with a polio vaccinator
To mark World Polio Day (24 November), Harry Rogers, RESULTS’ Parliamentary Advocacy Officer for Child Health, interviews Edmund Duodu, a community vaccinator in Ghana, to hear how his work is going.
When we think of health, the year 2020 will forever be dominated by...
In the Fight Against the World’s Deadliest Diseases, It’s Time to Take the Next Step
This blog post from Taryn Russell, Campaigns Officer - Child Health and Vaccines at RESULTS Canada , is the fourth in our World Immunisation Week series on “Closing the Gap on...
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