Following the Funding: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
In January 2015, world leaders stepped up in a big way for child health. Together, they committed US$7.539 billion to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which is an international organization supporting …
From Rhetoric to Reality: An Analysis of Donor and Implementing Country Efforts to Scale up the TB-HIV Response
A new research report from ACTION shows that joint TB-HIV activities are neglected by HIV programs and overwhelmingly carried out by TB programs, and that global guidelines to address TB-HIV …
Making Health a Right for all: Universal Health Coverage and Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is widely perceived as a disease of the past. However, the latest available data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows a different reality. This paper was created …
Improved Nutrition: An Opportunity to Change Zambia’s Future
This publication from ACTION and its partners CITAM+, based in Zambia, outlines how Zambia’s government can accelerate efforts to fight child undernutrition, and discusses how this acceleration would impact Zambia’s …
UK TB Voices: The Stories Behind the Statistics
“UK TB Voices: The Story Behind the Statistics” depicts the personal stories of individuals affected by TB in the UK, and calls on the UK Government to form a national strategy …
Gavi Donor Immunization Record
In June 2011, the world committed an additional US$4.3 billion to Gavi, which enabled Gavi to commit to averting 4 million future deaths by 2015. Since then, Gavi has been …
Advocacy 101
ACTION partner RESULTS Educational Fund is one of the most well-known grassroots advocacy organizations in the world. The RESULTS approach to advocacy is battle-tested and has achieved numerous gains over …
Children and TB series
Children and TB: Exposing a Hidden Epidemic ACTION (September 2011) ACTION’s enlightening analysis of the link between the burden of tuberculosis (TB) and the world’s most vulnerable children — those …
Chehera: The Human Face of TB
GHA India (March 2011) The real lives and faces behind the disease inspired Global Health Advocates India to harness the power of art through a collaboration with the Art For …
Aid Without Impact
How the World Bank and Development Partners Are Failing to Improve Health Through SWAps The last decade saw an increase in support for broader health sector development in sub-Saharan Africa, …