Official Development Assistance (ODA) that is dedicated to basic nutrition programmes represents only 0.4% of total aid, according to a new report that analysed figures from 2011. Although some countries are showing leadership in this field, resources and political will remain insufficient to eradicate world hunger. In 2010 the World Bank estimated that an increase of US$10.3 billion in annual financial resources would end under-nutrition. But since then, basic nutrition ODA has increased by...
Imagine a world without AIDS, TB and malaria. It seems impossible, given that these are the world’s top three infectious disease killers. Yet right now we have a historic opportunity to eliminate these diseases as public health threats.
Defeating these diseases has been at the forefront of global health efforts since the new century began, backed with the political will of Millennium...
In this guest blog post, Laura Kerr, leader of the Glasgow RESULTS group, reflects on her weekend at the RESULTS National Conference 2013.
I wrote this blog post as I made the 5 and a half hour journey back to Glasgow after the Results National Conference 2013; and I’m very happy to say that no matter how many hours I would have to spend on a train to get to the conference I would.
This week in parliament, the APPG on Global Tuberculosis (TB) launched a major new report that calls on the UK Government to take a two-fold approach to tackling the increasing public health threat of TB in the UK and worldwide.
Hi everyone, my name’s Matt Oliver and I’m coming to the end of Week One at RESULTS UK! I’ve taken on the role of Health Advocacy Officer working on Tuberculosis. I’ll be working on UK-based advocacy, supporting the team’s work on parliamentary engagement and am looking forward to getting started.
I've joined RESULTS from Malaria No More UK, where I was an intern supporting their work on parliamentary e...
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I'm a self-admitted wonk and a bit of a skeptic – there’s no denying it. So when I heard the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF were launching a new global plan, I wasn’t excited until I heard it was about integrating approaches to tackle the two leading...
My name is Katherine Pittore and I have recently joined Results as the nutrition advocacy officer, helping Results to expand their nutrition advocacy work and develop a longer term strategy on nutrition. I am looking forward to working on nutrition at this exciting time with so much energy around hunger and nutrition. On June 8 th the UK are hosting a ‘hunger summit’ before the G8 meeting, and in the short term I will be working to support a successful summit. We are calling on the UK,...
Today the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) released a new report called the Global Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index which is the first index to look at government commitment to tackling hunger and nutrition, specifically looking at policies, legal frameworks and public spending on hunger and nutrition. The report examines both hunger, or not having enough food and undernutrition, or not having enough nutrients to be healthy, separately. It looks at interventions such as provision...
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