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Amsterdam, The Netherlands (July 27, 2018) — In a special session at the close of the 22nd International AIDS Conference, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and other high-level speakers called for urgent action to better integrate the responses to tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. President Clinton called on the audience to remember that TB is the largest killer of people with HIV and urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other heads of state to demonstrate global commitments to more ambitious, people-centered responses in two months at the first-ever United Nations High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB in New York on September 26.

Washington, D.C.  (Jan. 22) - The ACTION Leadership Group is pleased to announce that Health Promotion Tanzania (HDT), a non-profit organization based in Dar es Salaam, has formally joined the partnership as lead in-country advocacy partner in Tanzania.

Civil society warns talk is not enough

Moscow, Russia (Nov. 17, 2017) – Civil society participants highlighted the importance of building on new political resolve to end tuberculosis (TB) at the first-ever WHO Global Ministerial Conference on TB.

Washington, D.C. (Sept. 14, 2017) – While at least 24 developing countries are at risk of losing funding from multiple multilateral institutions for key health programs simultaneously in the next five years, government and key stakeholders either do not believe or are not aware that these transitions are likely to take place. Additionally, despite their individual transition policies, there is little evidence of serious efforts by institutions like Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI); or the World Bank, to tackle the multiplier effect of simultaneous transitions in a coordinated way.

Washington, D.C. (Mar. 26) – The election of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ph.D., as the new director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), and his bold assertion that health is a human right to be upheld through universal health coverage, is being hailed by the ACTION global health advocacy partnership as the kind of leadership the organization and the world need to remove barriers to care and advance human development and global prosperity. A former Ethiopian health and foreign minister, Dr. Ghebreyesus is the first African chosen to head the 69-year-old organization. He was elected by the member states of the WHO at a meeting in Geneva, May 23.

Washington, D.C. (May 26) – ACTION global health advocacy partnership is calling on G7 leaders to invest more in efforts to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) and polio, end malnutrition, and promote universal health coverage. Citing diseases of poverty, lack of proper nutrients—particularly in the first 1000 days of life—and the inability to access proper healthcare by the world’s poorest people, as the greatest barriers to human development and global prosperity, the group is demanding action from the leaders of the world’s largest economies, meeting in Taormina, Italy, May 26–27.

Addis Ababa (Jan. 31) – Heads of State from across Africa, today, endorsed the Addis Declaration on Immunization (ADI) also known as the Ministerial Declaration on Universal Access to Immunization, a historic and timely pledge to ensure that everyone in Africa – regardless of who they are or where they live – receives the full benefits of immunization. The endorsement was issued during the 28th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Further efforts to build on this investment are needed in the years ahead to put the diseases in the history books