Tuberculosis

The logic is simple enough: a global pandemic needs a global response. But so far, Washington has failed to deliver on its role in the world. First the Administration put a dangerous freeze on funding for the World Health Organization. Now the latest $3 trillion package passed by the House has zero international pandemic funding, and the Senate has put its next bill on hold.

According to press reports, the White House is preparing to exploit a budget trick that would cancel funding for the fight against global poverty. This roundabout move would jeopardize $2-4 billion in aid that Congress has already approved and has been signed into law.

As world leaders come together later this year to make new commitments to the Global Fund, it’s no time for retreat.

UN high-level meeting must set new trajectory for world’s biggest infectious killer, matching bold targets with action, resources and accountability

RESULTS Executive Director Joanne Carter was quoted in the HuffPost ahead of the first-ever UN high level meeting on tuberculosis.

Health leaders from around the world gathered here today to fast track the fight to end tuberculosis. The day’s events included the formal launch by Prime Minister Modi of a strategy to end TB in India by 2025.

TB is the world’s biggest infectious killer – even though it’s treatable, curable, and preventable. Why does this disease still kill more than 4,000 people every single day? Because world leaders haven’t made ending it a priority.

The White House has once again jeopardized the futures of families struggling to put food on the table, kids around the world seeking an education, and millions more people facing poverty. The administration’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request proposes massive funding cuts to effective anti-poverty programs in the U.S. and around the world. Now the process and final decisions fall to Congress, where there is stiff opposition to much of this budget and where similar proposals failed last year.

With its first federal budget proposal, the White House has taken aim at families struggling to put food on the table, kids around the world seeking an education, and millions more people facing poverty. Proposing massive funding cuts to effective anti-poverty programs, the budget jeopardizes the futures of people across the country and around the world. Now Congress takes up the process.

It falls to Congress to reject dangerous White House proposal.

Every year, Congress decides how to spend the money in the U.S. federal budget. RESULTS urges our lawmakers to support issues that build the foundation to end poverty – health, education, and economic opportunity. These are memos you can use to make FY21 requests of your members of Congress.

Guest Speaker: Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria

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October 2019 Webinar & Transcript

October 2019 Webinar Slides (PDF)

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June 2019 Webinar Recording with audio transcript

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Guest Speaker: Sibu Sibaca, HER Ambassador for the Global Fund

May 2019 Webinar Recording

May 2019 Webinar Slides (PDF)

May 2019 Webinar Slides (PPT)