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RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund provide the media with up-to-date, accurate information about hunger and poverty and about the most current legislative actions on Capitol Hill that affect these issues. We provide access to experts on the issues from our staff, hold media briefings and press conferences about news and actions that affect hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world, and issue press briefs to provide journalists with in-depth background on current issues.

Drug Resistant TB an Urgent Threat

Although usually treatable with a course of inexpensive drugs ($22–50), TB kills 1.4 million people every year, making it the most deadly curable infectious disease in the world. One-third of the global population carries the bacterium that causes TB, and nearly 9 million will become sick with active TB in a year. TB continues to be the biggest killer of people with HIV, taking one in four lives of those who die of AIDS-related causes.

When TB is treated improperly or inconsistently, the disease develops resistance to the limited number of effective drugs available. Though overall TB death rates have dropped by 41 percent since 1990, hard-to-treat drug-resistant TB is surging because of poor or incomplete treatment. And those with active drug-resistant TB transmit the drug-resistant TB strain to others.

Statement on Wall Street Journal Article: XDR-TB Case in Texas Calls for Compassion, Global Action

March 2, 2013 — The case of a Nepalese man detained at the U.S. border in Texas suffering from an extensively-drug resistant (XDR-TB) strain of tuberculosis — featured in today’s Wall Street Journal — brings heightened clarity to the urgency of a renewed global response in the fight against tuberculosis (TB).

Statement from Joanne Carter on the Release of PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation

In response to the release of PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation, Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, released the following statement:

This blueprint reflects the opportunity we have to not just fight HIV/AIDS, but end it. I applaud Secretary Clinton and Ambassador Goosby for their leadership and vision in outlining the next phase of the United States response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Statement from Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund

RESULTS is thrilled to congratulate Ambassador Mark Dybul on his appointment today as the new Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

RESULTS Responds to Census Bureau’s New Poverty Data

September 12, 2012 — Today, the U.S. Census bureau released its 2011 poverty and income data. 46.2 million Americans — 15 percent — lived in poverty last year ($23,021 or less for a family of four in 2011), not statistically different from 2010. RESULTS calls on Congress and President Obama to make ending poverty a top priority and protect critical programs that help millions of low-income Americans struggling to make ends meet. “The new Census data reinforces what we’ve known already — that too many of our fellow Americans are struggling today, and that anti-poverty of programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) work,” said Meredith Dodson, director of RESULTS U.S. poverty campaigns. The Census Bureau estimates that EITC lifted 5.7 million Americans out of poverty last year and SNAP lifted 3.9 million above the poverty line. “We need to protect critical services for our most vulnerable, and we strongly urge Congress to reject proposed Draconian cuts to key safety net programs.”

2012 World Bank Editorial Packet

The field of mathematics — once the boring domain of those armed with pocket-protectors — has of late been vaulted into the high-stakes world of politics and international affairs. U.S. presidential candidates are accusing one another of an inability to perform simple arithmetic. Banks, we recently learned, have been falsely inflating or deflating their rates to impact profits or appear more creditworthy than they actually are. Casual observers could be forgiven for wondering when simple math became so difficult.

RESULTS Commends Price Reductions on Improved TB Test to Speed Diagnosis, Save Lives

Washington D.C. — On August 7, 2012, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), UNITAID, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced an agreement that will significantly reduce the cost of the rapid TB diagnostic test Xpert MTB/RIF (commonly referred to as GeneXpert) in 145 high-burden and developing countries. RESULTS issued the following statement in response:

RESULTS Dismayed over Bangladeshi Government Takeover of Grameen Bank’s Leadership

August 2, 2012 — Today, the Bangladesh cabinet approved changes to the Grameen Bank Ordinance (the 1983 law that created Grameen Bank) that would gut the power of Grameen Bank’s Board of Directors and transfer authority to the government-appointed chairman to select the next managing director of the Bank.

Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, issued the following statement in response.

RESULTS Stands with Female Senators in Support of Grameen Bank

June 28, 2012 — Yesterday, all 17 female members of the United States Senate released a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh expressing their strong support for preserving the autonomy of the Grameen Bank, which provides credit and other critical services to more than 8.3 million of the poorest women in Bangladesh, and is 97 percent owned by these women borrowers.

Saving the Other Half: How the World Can End Preventable Child Deaths

Thirty years ago, when UNICEF launched its “Child Survival Revolution,” 14 million children under the age of five died every year around the world. Today, after three decades of leadership, innovation, and hard work, that grim number has been cut in half. This progress must strengthen our resolve to do more, faster, because today we have more and better tools, and saving the other half is now possible.

RESULTS Applauds Nomination of Dr. Jim Kim to Lead World Bank

Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, issued the following statement in support of Jim Kim's nomination to Lead the World Bank by President Obama on March 23, 2012:

RESULTS Mourns the Death of Rep. Donald Payne

Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, issued the following statement:

RESULTS is saddened to learn of the death of Representative Donald Payne, who was a true champion for global health and fighting poverty, particularly in Africa.As chair and ranking member of the Africa and Global Health Subcommittee, Rep. Payne was an outspoken advocate in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases of poverty. His bold leadership was particularly instrumental in increasing funding to combat tuberculosis, the leading killer of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

Transcript: Global Fund 10th Anniversary Media Conference Call

Transcript of the Global Fund 10th Anniversary media conference call. The call featured Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health in Ethiopia; and Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.

10 Years On, Funding Crisis Threatens the Global Fund’s Effort to End AIDS

On January 28, 2012, the world marks the 10-year anniversary of the launch of the most successful global health effort in history — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Nearly eight million lives have been saved through Global Fund investments to-date, and even greater progress is on the horizon, thanks to recent scientific breakthroughs and the achievements of the last decade.

Against the backdrop of success and future promise, however, the Global Fund’s mission is in jeopardy. During the economic downturn that may only now be coming to an end, a number of wealthy countries either cut their pledges to the Global Fund or have failed to deliver the money they promised. Without the necessary resources in hand, the Global Fund was forced to announce on November 23, 2011 — a mere week before World AIDS Day — that it was cancelling its next round of grant-making (Round 11) and would stop making new grants for at least two years.

To understand just how damaging and ironic this stoppage is, we must go back in time a decade to the Global Fund’s creation.

World Aids Day Statement from Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund

President Obama made a significant commitment to dramatically increase anti-retroviral treatment through U.S. programs by 2013. This is a crucial step towards ending AIDS. Read RESULTS Educational Fund Executive Director Joanne Carter’s statement on what this new target means for an “AIDS free generation” and why it is equally important to fully fund the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

REF Executive Director Joanne Carter Responds to Financial Crisis at the Global Fund

November 23, 2011 — As a consequence of unfulfilled commitments from donor governments, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is facing a massive financial crisis. In response, at the Global Fund’s 25^th meeting of the Board on November 20, the Board cancelled all plans for new grant-making effective immediately until 2014. The Board also announced that it does not have enough funding to support some recently approved grants. The Global Fund is the largest international funder for tuberculosis and malaria programs, and the second-largest international funder for HIV/AIDS programs, providing life-saving services to millions of people around the world.

2011 World AIDS Day Editorial Packet

A global conversation is beginning about the possibility of the end of AIDS. December 1, World AIDS Day, is the ideal time for RESULTS advocates to help deepen the conversation through our latest editorial packet.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed wins world’s largest education prize in Qatar

In recognition of his outstanding work in the field of education, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairperson of BRAC, has won the $500,000 WISE Prize for Education in Doha, Qatar. The Emir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, awarded the prize to Abed, who in 1972 founded what has gone on to become the world’s largest development organization.

Vaccines Against Major Diseases to Reach 37 More Countries

The GAVI Alliance today announced it will provide funding for 16 more developing countries to introduce rotavirus vaccines and 18 more countries to introduce pneumococcal vaccines — a major step towards protecting children against severe diarrhoea and pneumonia — the two leading child killers.

Education Editorial Packet

Back to School Time — But Not If You’re a Girl in Mali

There are 34.7 million elementary school children in the U.S. getting ready to go back to school in August and September.[1] But around the world, the reality is that nearly double that number — 67 million — won’t go to school at all; the majority of these children are girls. Unless more effective policies are implemented and there is greater international support, 72 million children may still be out of school by 2015 — more than in 2008. Millions more will receive a poor-quality education and not be able to read, write, or count. We must do our part to ensure the poorest and hardest-to-reach children — especially girls — can go to school and learn.

* On August 24, 2011, the Fast Track Initiative (FTI) officially changed its name to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). The change will be announced on September 21 at the UN General Assembly.

[1] National Center for Education Statistics. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=65

Millions of girls in poor countries have only a 50/50 chance of finishing primary education

New report highlights countries failing to get female children into school

Millions of girls are being forced out of school because of poverty, the threat of sexual violence and poor-quality schools — despite improved enrolment rates, according to a new report released today by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) and RESULTS.

The report calls for governments and international financial institutions to redress the balance and give girls a fair deal. In the last decade more girls have been able to start school but they remain more likely than boys to be forced out again. In some parts of the world only one girl in ten will complete primary school.

RESULTS Executive Director Joanne Carter Makes Statement In Response to Historic GAVI U.S. Pledge

Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, released the following statement in response to the announcement that the United States will commit $450 million over the next three years to the GAVI Alliance:

U.S. can help save more than 4 million children through global vaccination pledge

Thanks to two new vaccines that can provide immunity from pneumococcal disease (the main cause of pneumonia) and rotavirus (the leading cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea), we have the opportunity to prevent the deaths of 4.2 million children worldwide by 2015. Getting those vaccinations to the children who need them, however, will require a U.S. contribution of at least $450 million over the next 3 years to the GAVI Alliance, a global partnership to improve access to new and underused vaccines.

Film Chronicling Poverty and Efforts to Provide Credit to America’s Unbanked Opens Today

RESULTS groups in 35 cities and towns across the United States are hosting events for the release of Gayle Ferraro’s historic documentary To Catch A Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America. The film, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the inspiring, logic-defying, yet true story of RESULTS Board Member Muhammad Yunus’ idea to bring his model of microlending to the United States and depicts the millions of lives it has changed in the process.

Groundbreaking Film on Efforts to Provide Credit to America’s Unbanked Screening in 250 Cities

RESULTS chapters in over 25 communities across the country are helping to host local screenings of the Sundance documentary To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America on March 31. The film chronicles the inspiring, logic-defying, yet true story of RESULTS Board member Yunus’ idea to bring his model of microlending to the United States and depicts the millions of lives it has changed in the process. Along with partners like Operation Hope and Dress for Success, and more traditional microcredit networks like the Association for Enterprise Opportunity and Grameen America, RESULTS is bringing attention to the struggles of those living in poverty in America and highlighting innovative asset-building policies that can break the cycle of poverty.

Congress Expresses Support for Yunus, Concern for Independence of Grameen Bank

Washington, DC (March 15, 2011) — Congressional leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives expressed concern over efforts by the government of Bangladesh to oust Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus from his position as managing director of Grameen Bank. Today the Bangladeshi Supreme Court opted for a two week delay on a decision whether to hear Professor Yunus’ appeal of the government’s action to remove him.

Cuts That Kill Editorial Packet

We’ve been receiving some great media from the U.S. and around the world in step with RESULTS Executive Director Joanne Carter’s Huffington Post article “Cuts That Kill,” calling for Congress not to cut essential foreign aid spending. See the editorial packet (pdf).

Standing with Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank

Today the leadership of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund and the Microcredit Summit Campaign expressed concern and alarm over reports that the government of Bangladesh had forced Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus to step down as managing director of Grameen Bank. Prof. Yunus has vowed to stay on as managing director, noting that only the board of Grameen Bank is empowered to remove him.

Congress Should Uphold Bipartisan Legacy on HIV/AIDS and Global Health

As we approach this World AIDS Day on December 1, our country is politically divided. Economic crisis, disagreement on policies, electoral politics, and historic distrust have pitted the two major parties against one another. A survey of the post-election commentary shows each party paying lip service to bipartisanship, but few concrete proposals for cooperation have yet emerged. Recommitting the United States to a leadership role in global health is an issue that is ripe for such cooperation across the aisle.

Global Fund Replenishment Meeting Ends with Massive Funding Shortfall; Lives Hang in the Balance

At the conclusion replenishment meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today in New York, donors fell far short of investing the $20 billion needed to fully fund the fight against the three pandemics. Instead of the doubling of funding commitments needed to accelerate HIV, TB and malaria program scal-up, countries announced initial increases averaging approximately 25 percent — or, in the case of some donors, did not pledge at all. This shortfall, unless corrected, will mean that the Global Fund will have to reject high quality country proposals, and dramatically slow down the pace of scaling up.

Dr. Muhammad Yunus awarded the Congressional Gold Medal

The passage of this bill is truly an amazing accomplishment for our grassroots volunteers! We had a long way to go as we were the only activists working on the bill, which had to meet the extremely high threshold of securing two-thirds of each chamber — 67 senators and 290 representatives — as cosponsors; but in fact, our volunteers got 296 representatives!

World Bank Corrects Course with $750 Million to Education

On the heels of RESULTS Educational Fund’s latest report, World Bank Financing for Education: Less or More for the Poor in IDA 16?, the World Bank today announced $750 million in additional investments in education. While a definite step in the right direction, we’re still pushing for these funds to be frontloaded — spent over the next three years as opposed to five — and also given as grants rather than loans. The announcement was made during an event at the Millennium Development Goal Summit in New York City, where it is hoped that other donors will follow suit and increase their investments toward achieving universal primary education by 2015.

Global Fund Media Clips

In preparation fo the MDG Summit and the Global Fund replenishment, RESULTS along with our amazing grassroots volunteers have embarked on a media campaign to do our part to make sure the U.S. fulfills a pledge of $6 billion over the next 3 years. We have been submitting editorials, letters to the editor, and op-eds on this issue and have made an incredible impact. Read more to download a PDF of all the news clips we’ve generated to date. Keep checking back here as the document will be updated periodically as the media hits come in!

Obama Pledge to Global Fund Can Bring Millennium Goals Within Reach

In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly last September, President Obama declared, “We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year's summit with a global plan to make them a reality.” As the time approaches to present that plan, a substantial, multi-year pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is essential for achieving the 2015 MDGs related to global health. To continue the work of life-saving programs and to accelerate the progress against these killer diseases, the United States must commit to contributing $6 billion to the Global Fund over a three-year period beginning in 2012. Download the full document here in MS Word.

Transcript: Education for All Act National Media Call

Conference call featuring Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY); Joanna Kuebler, director of the Global Campaign for Education (U.S.); and Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund.

Transcript: World TB Day National Media Call

Transcript of 2010 World TB Day national media call. The call featured Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund; Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO Stop TB Department; Kenneth Castro, director of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Gerald Friedland, professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine.

Transcript: World TB Day California Media Call

Conference call for California journalists featuring Dr. Ernesto Jaramillo, Dr. James Watt, Dr. Frank Alvarez, and former TB patient Rachel Orduno

Dr. Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS, testifies before House Foreign Affairs Committee

Washington (March 11, 2010) — Dr. Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund, made the following statement before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health about the need to increase Global AIDS funding over President Obama’s budget request.

Join RESULTS at Marianne Williamson’s Sister Giant Conference This Weekend

RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund Board Member Marianne Williamson is organizing a three day Sister Giant conference February 26–28, 2010, in Los Angeles to empower women to be major players in changing the world. Day number three will focus on engaging participant in RESULTS.

Recipients of Presidential Medal of Freedom Urge Obama to Create Global Fund for Education

What do a banker to the poor, a former president, and a religious leader have in common? They are among the first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama — and they have all called for the creation of a Global Fund for Education.

Muhammad Yunus to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund extend heartfelt congratulations to Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and longtime RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund board member, on the announcement that he will be awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. The White House made public yesterday that Professor Yunus will be one of the sixteen recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Professor Yunus will receive the award from President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony on August 12, 2009.

Guardian: Desmond Tutu asks G8 leaders to get world’s children into school

Nobel laureate implores Gordon Brown and Barack Obama ahead of G8 summit to create new global fund for education by end of 2009.

Voice of America: G8 Asked to Create Global Education Fund

Nobel laureates and leading human rights activists issued a call for the creation of a Global Fund for Education. They say hundreds of millions of young children and adolescents are unable to attend school and about 770-million adults remain illiterate.

Transcript: Global Fund for Education Conference Call with Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Transcript of call with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Desmond Bermingham calling on G8 to establish a Global Fund for Education

Mary Robinson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Professor Muhammad Yunus Call on Leaders of G8 Countries

WASHINGTON, DC (June 30, 2009) — In an open letter sent today to the leaders of all G8 countries, Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town; Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland; and Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, called on G8 heads of state to renew their commitment to the world’s children. The authors of the letter specifically asked the leaders to announce an agreement on the creation of a Global Fund for Education (GFE) at the G8 Summit, which will be held July 8–10 in L’Aquila, Italy.

Press Brief: Obama Must Make Good on Commitment to Global Fund for Education

Press brief detailing why it is critical that President Obama lead the charge for primary education worldwide.

Forbes.com: Congress’ Chance To Change The IMF

Op-ed by RESULTS Executive Director Joanne Carter and Peter Bujari, executive director of the Human Development Trust in Tanzania.

Inter Press Service: NGOs Oppose Nearly $100 Billion Pledge to IMF

A broad coalition of civil society groups, as well as some U.S. lawmakers, is fighting what they call a “blank cheque” from the U.S. to expand funding for the International Monetary Fund.

New York Daily News: The World Bank’s Credibility Gap

Op-ed by Richard Skolnik

Chronicle of Philanthropy: Global-Health Groups Upset by President’s Budget Proposal

President Obama’s proposal to spend $8.6-billion next year on what he dubbed a “new, comprehensive global-health strategy” has drawn ire from some global-health charities, which say he has requested far less to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria than he had previously pledged.

Evaluation Shows World Bank Is Failing on Health

Washington, DC (May 6, 2009) — The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank today released a report on the last decade of the Bank's programming on health, nutrition, and population that shows a vast majority of the Bank's health programs in Africa are failing to deliver.

Reuters: Watchdog gives World Bank a mixed review on health

The World Bank’s internal watchdog group on April 30, 2009, gave the poverty-fighting agency a mixed review for its efforts to improve health in poor countries and gave it low marks for its work in Africa.

Observer: Can the IMF Now Feed the World?

The London G20 summit tripled the resources of the International Monetary Fund and made it a major force again, responsible for saving national economies hit by the global crash. But given its recent track record, will its policies do more harm than good?

Transcript: Big Read Media Call

Media call conducted in concert with the Global Fund for Education on April 21, 2009, announcing the Big Read, with Owain James, Oxfam, UK; Angelique Kidjo, founder, Batonga Foundation; Assibi Napoe, Chief Regional Coordinator, Education International; and Ishmael Beah, former Sierra Leonean child soldier.

Huffington Post: Jordan’s Queen Rania, Congresswoman Nita Lowey Launch “The Big Read”

Queen Rania of Jordan joined other leading education advocates Congresswoman Nita Lowey and Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury Gene Sperling to launch “The Big Read” as part of Global Campaign for Education's global action week calling for quality basic education for all children.

World TB Day 2009 Editorial Packet

Impoverished people in developing countries share no blame in the current financial crisis, but they are the ones who could bear the consequences perhaps with their lives — of mistakes made by Wall Street investors.

RESULTS Commends Reauthorization of Children’s Health Bill

Washington, DC (February 4, 2009) — RESULTS Educational Fund today commended the United States Congress and President Barack Obama for reauthorizing the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): legislation that provides healthcare for millions of the nation's uninsured children.

More Than 100 Million of World’s Poorest Benefit from Microcredit

New York, NY (January 26, 2009) — More than 106 million of the world’s poorest families received a microloan in 2007, surpassing a goal set ten years earlier, according to a report released today by the Microcredit Summit Campaign.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus Makes Major Announcement about Microcredit Summit Goal

Washington, DC (January 12, 2009) — Media Advisory: On January 26, 2009, the Microcredit Summit Campaign will release the State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2009, with a major announcement.

World AIDS Day 2008 Editorial Packet: Fighting AIDS Means Fighting TB

President-elect Obama must ensure that the five-year, $48 billion Lantos-Hyde Act that he helped pass as a senator this summer is fully funded, allowing the reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), as well as programs for TB and malaria.

Presidential candidates pledge to fight tuberculosis

Washington, DC (October 7, 2008) — Both major presidential candidates issued statements last week pledging to fight tuberculosis globally by funding treatment and prevention efforts.

Presidential candidates urged to tackle global TB

Washington, DC (October 3, 2008) — Global health experts and activists have joined together to call on the next U.S. president to develop a global initiative to fight tuberculosis (TB).

Clinton Global Initiative Highlights RESULTS/REF Commitment on Universal Basic Education

Washington, DC (September 26, 2008) — The RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund (REF) is very pleased to announce the selection of our Accelerating Universal Basic Education commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

Presidential candidates call for new efforts to fight global poverty

Washington, DC (September 25, 2008) — Both major presidential candidates voiced their support for development initiatives critical to tackling poverty worldwide in their separate addresses to the Clinton Global Initiative.

Press Briefing Via Conference Call on Adapting U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet Global Poverty Goals

Washington, DC (September 17, 2008) — Media Advisory: On September 25, world leaders will gather at the United Nations for a high-level event convened by the Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly to re-commit to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Reforming Foreign Aid

Providing assistance to poor countries has helped the U.S. build positive relationships with other nations and demonstrates the best aspects of U.S. engagement on the world stage. When invested wisely, foreign aid both reflects American values of compassion and justice and serves our national interest in a stable, peaceful world.

U.S. Census: More Americans Below Poverty Line in 2007 Than in 2001

Washington, DC (August 26, 2008) — The latest data released by the Census Bureau today show that more Americans are likely to be living in poverty in 2007 than they were at the bottom of the last recession in 2001.

People Living with HIV Not Being Tested for Tuberculosis

Washington, DC (August 7, 2008) — A mere 1 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are reported to have been screened for TB, according to the most recent global data available from the World Health Organization.

President to Sign Historic Global Health Bill

Washington, DC (July 30, 2008) — President George Bush today will sign into law an historic measure to fight global disease.

Ensure Funding for Historic Global Health Bill

President Bush has signed the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 into law. This is an historic global health bill, authorizing an unprecedented $48 billion to fight three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases.

New Study Reveals Link Between IMF Loans and Increased TB Rates

Washington, DC (July 21, 2008) — A new study conducted by researchers at Cambridge and Yale Universities shows that tuberculosis incidence and mortality rates in Eastern European and former Soviet countries rose significantly after countries accepted loans from the International Monetary Fund, and dropped after those programs were discontinued.

RESULTS Applauds Senate Passage of Historic Global Health Bill

Washington, DC (July 17, 2008) — Last evening the Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve an historic global health bill, the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008.

PEPFAR Editorial Packet: Time Running Out on AIDS, TB and Malaria Bill

While great strides have been made against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria over the last five years, more than 5 million people continue to perish from these diseases annually. The Lantos-Hyde U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 sets bold targets and authorizes America's share of the resources needed to turn back these infectious killers.

U.S. AIDS program is transforming the world; now is not the time to pull back

PEPFAR Op-Ed by Joanne Carter

Bush, Other G8 Leaders Poised to Break AIDS and Health Promises

Washington, DC (July 2, 2008) — One week before the start of the G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan, a leaked copy of the latest version of the G8 communiqué contains no reference to the G8's 2010 deadline for reaching universal access to AIDS treatment, prevention and care — a dramatic step backwards according to U.S. advocacy organizations.

U.S. leadership on AIDS, TB and malaria at stake as impasse continues on landmark bill

Washington, DC (July 1, 2008) — The Senate's failure to pass legislation to continue the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is a great disappointment for a world struggling to thwart these diseases, said RESULTS, a citizens lobby focused on global health and poverty.

PEPFAR Editorial Packet: Time Running Out to Pass Major Global Health Act

When President Bush traveled to Africa, he noted the progress made against AIDS, thanks in no small part to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of the Bush administration, the resources provided by PEPFAR have undoubtedly saved millions of lives around the world. But now that PEPFAR is being considered for reauthorization, the greatest bipartisan effort in recent years has run into an unfortunate congressional roadblock.

Presidential Hopefuls Add Support To Landmark Global AIDS Bill

Washington, DC (June 20, 2008) — In the last few days, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain both added their names to the U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 (S. 2731).

June 2008 PEPFAR Editorial Packet

The most important global health legislation in U.S. history doesn't need more votes. It needs more leadership.

Crucial AIDS and Global Health Legislation Stalled in Senate

Washington, DC (June 17, 2008) — Press Briefing via Conference Call June 18, 1:00 pm ET

Leaders and Activists Call for Action to Stop Global TB

Washington, DC (June 12, 2008) — In the first major meeting of its kind, world leaders and global health activists came together on June 9 at the UN headquarters in New York to spur action on the increasingly dangerous connection between the global tuberculosis and the HIV/AIDS pandemics.

Open Letter to the Governments of the World

As leaders gather in New York for the Global Leaders Forum on TB/HIV, we write as civil society groups, advocates, researchers, and groups of people living with TB and HIV from 65 countries around the world to demand concrete action on TB and HIV.

Press Briefing Via Conference Call on Breakthrough UN Forum on Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

Washington, DC (June 2, 2008) — On June 9, world leaders and members of the global health community will meet for the first time at the United Nations for a Global Leaders Forum on both TB and HIV/AIDS.

May 2008 PEPFAR Editorial Packet

During his recent trip to Africa, President Bush noted the progress made against AIDS, thanks in no small part to the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis, however, threatens to undermine that progress.

Child Survival Editorial Packet

For mothers in the world's poorest nations, losing a child is an all too common occurrence.

Gordon Brown, Robert Zoellick, Shakira to Kick Off Global Campaign for Education Action Week

Washington, DC (April 15, 2008) — On April 21, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and Grammy award-winning artist Shakira will participate in a media conference call to kick off the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) Action Week that will take place April 21-27, 2008.

A Lesson We Can All Learn

April 9, 2008 — Global Education Op-Ed by Mary Njoroge

U.S. Must Do More on Global Education

Access to education is generally considered to be a fundamental right. But for millions of children around the world, even a basic education is unattainable.

Stopping TB: Everyone’s Responsibility

March 24, 2008 — TB Op-ed by Patient-Activist Rachel C. Orduno

Stalled Progress on TB Worldwide Calls for Urgent Action

Washington, DC (March 18, 2008) — The WHO’s annual report, Global Tuberculosis Control 2008, reports that although progress is being made in detecting and treating tuberculosis, the level of progress has slowed or stalled in high-burden countries, and the absolute number of deaths has risen.

Press Briefing/Conference Call on State of Global Tuberculosis Epidemic in Advance of World TB Day

Washington, DC (March 11, 2008) — On March 17, the World Health Organization will release its annual report with the latest data on the global tuberculosis epidemic, in advance of World TB Day (March 24).

MDR-TB and PEPFAR Editorial Packet

During his week-long trip to Africa, President Bush noted the progress made against AIDS in that region, thanks in no small part to the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis, however, threatens to undermine that progress.

New Global Drug-Resistant TB Data Demand Action from Congress

Washington, DC (February 27, 2008) — A new survey of global drug-resistant tuberculosis, Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World, strengthens the case for a major new U.S. initiative on global tuberculosis control.

Press Briefing/Conference Call on New Data on Global Threat of Drug-Resistant TB with WHO Experts

Washington, DC (February 25, 2008) — On February 26, the World Health Organization will release a new surveillance report on drug-resistant tuberculosis titled "Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World."

Drug-Resistant TB and PEPFAR Editorial Packet

People living with HIV/AIDS are much more susceptible to TB, and without effective diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant strains, TB becomes a rapid death sentence.

RESULTS Mourns the Passing of Rep. Tom Lantos

Washington, DC (February 14, 2008) — It is with great sadness that RESULTS learned of the passing of Representative Tom Lantos of California.

Members of Congress Call on World Bank to Support Microfinance for the Very Poor

Washington, DC (February 8, 2008) — Thirty senators have signed on to a letter to World Bank President Robert Zoellick urging him to ensure that the Bank invests more in microfinance and, most important, ensures that at least half of all microfinance resources benefit the very poor.

2008 Campaigns: RESULTS Activists Nationwide Tackling Poverty at Home and Abroad in 2008

Whether poverty occurs in the slums of Nairobi or the foothills of Appalachia, it can be easier to turn away, and think that the problems are too big, too complex, for any one person to make a difference. The citizen volunteers and partners of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund know that this is not true.

President Bush Proposes Flat Funding for Global AIDS Initiative

Washington, DC (January 28, 2008) — In his final State of the Union address, President Bush missed an opportunity to secure his legacy on fighting HIV/AIDS, instead proposing flat funding for his signature global AIDS initiative.

UNICEF Calls for More Action to Halt Preventable Child Deaths Around the World

UNICEF's The State of the World's Children 2008 report returns to the topic of child survival. The report documents the tremendous progress in children's health in recent decades, highlights the strategies and partnerships that have proven most effective, and outlines the challenges that remain.