RESULTS Blog  Follow us via RSS and Twitter!Keep up with RESULTS’ poverty fighting actions around the world! Subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter. Learn more. If you are using the Goole Chrome web browser make sure you follow our RSS with Google Reader! At any given moment, RESULTS staff and activists around the world are busy working with their elected officials, local media, or working within their communities to realize a world without poverty. Hear their stories here!January 2012 Domestic National Conference Call: Bold and Inspiring Plans for 2012By Meredith Dodson, Director of U.S. Poverty Campaigns The RESULTS Domestic January 2012 national conference call focused on our January Action: Group Planning, and featured Indivar Dutta-Gupta from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Indivar provided us a comprehensive overview of what the 2012 congressional agenda will likely play out on anti-poverty issues. In addition, the call featured an overview of our 2012 U.S. Poverty Campaigns, a review of Group Planning resources, RESULTS volunteer leaders in Houston, Columbus, Broward County and Santa Fe sharing about their recent work and plans for 2012, a demonstration of how to Request a Face-to-Face Lobby Visit with a Member of Congress (our January 2012 Domestic Laser Talk), and insights on how fundraising can even help groups achieve your expansion goals and reach out to your community. Read More. Keywords: EITC, CTC, tax policy, group planning, lobby meetings, fundraising0 Comments The Rise of Totally Drug-Resistant TBBy Mandy Slutsker Andrew Speaker caused an international incident in 2007 when he boarded an international flight while infected with XDR-TB, a form of tuberculosis resistant to most available drugs. It was terrifying to imagine what could have happened if the flight had taken off. Was there anything scarier than flying next to a person with extensively resistant TB? Read More. Keywords: tuberculosis, TB, global, Africa, TDR-TB, HIV, drug resistant0 Comments Marking a “Polio Free” Year in IndiaBy Dr. Bobby John -- Global Health Advocates India A year has passed by since the last wild polio case was detected in India. Indian investment and global support have brought things to this critical watershed moment. The next challenge is to maintain another 24 months of polio free status to truly be able to say that endemic wild polio transmission in India is a thing of the past, and to use the experience and infrastructure to raise the rates of immunization coverage among all children for the other diseases for which vaccines are available. Read More. Keywords: Polio, India, Vaccines, Global Health, Immunization0 Comments Frontline Health Workers Coalition Launches in D.C.By Crickett Nicovich, Outreach and Advocacy Associate RESULTS has joined forces with AMREF, Save the Children, Partners In Health, PSI, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the White Ribbon Alliance and others to form the Frontline Health Workers Coalition. The coalition’s mission is to urge greater and more strategic U.S. investment in frontline health workers in the developing world. Together we are pushing the U.S. to set a bold goal to increase the number of health workers trained and supported with U.S. assistance to 250,000 by 2015 to help close the resource gap. The coalition is also working to improve the capacity and impact of existing frontline health workers. Read More. Keywords: Frontline Health Workers Coaltion, Coalition, launch, #frontline0 Comments |