Al Jazeera - The 10 Year Anniversary of the Global Fund

Posted: February 7th, 2012 in Allies

This video originally aired on Al Jazeera on the 28th of January, marking the 10th Anniversary of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB, and Malaria. In it, the successes of the Global Fund are highlighted and RESULTS UK Executive Director Aaron Oxley talks briefly about the lasting damage not continuing to fund the Global Fund will have on these disease of poverty.  

MSF Steps Up TB Detection and Prevention

Posted: January 19th, 2012 in Allies

At its project in Kampong Cham, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has introduced measures to improve the detection rates of TB. Teams have also increased communication with the population in order to raise awareness and reduce the stigma around the disease.

Global Health Advocates India: Not a Toy Story

Posted: November 14th, 2011 in Allies

November 14 is celebrated as Children's Day in India. Global Health Advocates India, on this day in 2011, released this documentary as part of a drive to raise awareness of the dangerous spread of TB among children. Set in North India, the film features parents of child patients and eminent TB specialist doctors, among others, discussing the scourge that is paediatric TB.

Treating Tuberculosis in Colombia

Posted: August 22nd, 2011 in Allies

Treatment of MDR-TB costs $20,000 per patient, the high cost of treatment is denying Buenventura's sick access to healthcare. Miguel has TB and lives in Buneventura, however he received treatment too late and is resistant to first line drugs. He has to take six drugs a day. Since the end of 2010 MSF has been providing technical assistance to the National TB Program to improve diagnosis and follow-up of DR-TB patients.

GAVI’s Use of Innovative Financing

Posted: August 22nd, 2011 in Allies

GAVI uses innovative financing to raise funds and provide life-saving vaccines such as the International Finance Facility for Immunisation and Advanced Market Commitment for pneumococcal vaccines.

We Beat TB: Take 180 to Be #1 OK

Posted: April 26th, 2011 in Allies

The South Africa TB Program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development/South Africa and managed by a team led by University Research Co., LLC (http://www.urc-chs.com), developed this video for South Africa's national 2010 Kick TB Campaign. The animated video conveys a campaign message which encourages TB patients to take their medication daily and complete treatment.

Eliminating Tuberculosis

Posted: April 14th, 2011 in Allies

Video created by the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control in the european parlament as a basis for the discussions on eliminating tuberculosis in the EU.

Share in my Solitude: Living with drug-resistant TB

Posted: April 14th, 2011 in Allies

In this photofilm, Happiness Dlamini talks about her experiences of living with the treatment for drug-resistant TB. Happiness, who has a four-year old daughter and an eleven-year old son, lives in the Shiselweni Region of Swaziland. In 2003 she discovered that she was HIV positive and last year she found out she also was infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis. She's undergoing an arduous two year treatment course which requires her to take 15 pills each day as well as having a painful daily injection for the first six months of her treatment.  

Drug-resistant TB treatment: A Slow & Painful Process

Posted: April 14th, 2011 in Allies

Photographer and MSF field worker Misha Friedman visited MSF's tuberculosis project in Nukus, western Uzbekistan, where he met patients with heartbreaking stories: a 19-year-old man whose year and a half of difficult treatment for multi drug-resistance TB (MDR-TB) did not work; a 16-year-old boy who has recovered but feels the stigma of having had TB; a young woman weighing 50 pounds, holding on to hope that her treatment will be effective. We urgently need to solve the immediate problems of supply and high prices of the drugs available now for MDR-TB, especially since a new test has been developed that will allow us to diagnose patients more easily. Another urgent need is for better drugs that will treat the disease more quickly and with fewer burdens - including horrific side effects - on patients.  

Tuberculosis, a community approach

Posted: April 14th, 2011 in Allies

Khayelitsha is one of the biggest townships in South Africa; it has a population of about half a million and is located about 30 or 40 kilometres outside of Cape Town. It has one of the highest rates of TB (tuberculosis) and HIV in the country. Here MSF has established a decentralised model of care, which is based around the patient and aims at improving outcomes through diagnosing more people and starting them on treatment earlier. This is enabled by the model where patients are able to get treatment from their local clinics with a better treatment regiment, better diagnostic technics and more support for the patient.

Dr. Anneke C. Hesseling - World TB Day

Posted: April 14th, 2011 in Allies

March 24, marked World Tuberculosis (TB) Day - a day to raise awareness of the dangerous spread of TB worldwide, particularly among children and families living with HIV. Dr. Anneke Hesseling - Director of the Pediatric TB Research Program at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre in South Africa, and a recipient of the Elizabeth Glaser International Leadership Award (ILA) for research - visited the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation's D.C. offices to discuss the promising results of her work focused on children with both TB and HIV, two intertwined issues.  

Working Group on New TB Drugs: Dr. Anneke Hesseling Pt 2

Posted: January 31st, 2011 in Allies

Dr. Anneke Hesseling is the Director of the Paediatric TB Research Program at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. She has South African and US training in Medicine and Epidemiology and is the PI and co-PI on several large research projects relates to the epidemiology, transmission and diagnosis of tuberculosis in children, with special emphasis on the interaction between pediatric TB and HIV and the immunologic diagnosis of TB infection and disease. Dr. Hesseling has a special research interest in the epidemiologic and immunologic interaction between BCG and HIV in children and is the chairperson of the IUATLD BCG Working Group.

Working Group on New TB Drugs: Dr. Anneke Hesseling Pt 1

Posted: January 6th, 2011 in Allies

Dr. Anneke Hesseling is the Director of the Paediatric TB Research Program at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. She has South African and US training in Medicine and Epidemiology and is the PI and co-PI on several large research projects relates to the epidemiology, transmission and diagnosis of tuberculosis in children, with special emphasis on the interaction between pediatric TB and HIV and the immunologic diagnosis of TB infection and disease. Dr. Hesseling has a special research interest in the epidemiologic and immunologic interaction between BCG and HIV in children and is the chairperson of the IUATLD BCG Working Group.

Swaziland : Dual HIV and tuberculosis epidemic demands urgent action

Posted: January 4th, 2011 in Allies

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launches a report on the fight against a dual epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV that is devastating the southern African kingdom of Swaziland, cutting people's life expectancy from 60 years to just 31. The small kingdom of just over a million people is at the epicentre of a co-epidemic affecting the whole of southern Africa. In its report,"Fighting a dual epidemic: Treating TB and HIV in rural Swaziland", the international medical organisation draws upon its experience since 2007 in the Shiselweni region to define the urgent practical action that must be taken in response to this major health emergency.  

Tuberculosis in Burkina Faso

Posted: December 16th, 2010 in Allies

India’s War On AIDS

Posted: December 14th, 2010 in Allies

Breakfast With India

Posted: December 14th, 2010 in Allies

India's largest network of People Living with HIV, INP +, calls for availability of Xpert MTB/RIF Diagnostic tool for the PLHA community on eve of World AIDS Day, 2010. This tool accurately and reliably tests for TB within 90 minutes among PLHA; TB is the leading cause of death among People Living with HIV(PLHA) in India. International NGO Global Health Advocates India - ACTION Project, medical experts, join the call for availability of tests like Xpert MTB/RIF, that use molecular testing ,close to the PLHA community, for speedy diagnostics and treatment.  

TB CAP 5 Years of Global Experience

Posted: December 10th, 2010 in Allies

Peter Gondrie and Maarten van Cleeff introduce the highlights of TB CAP, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project to reduce the global burden of Tuberculosis.

The Motherland Tour - A Journey of African Women

Posted: September 21st, 2010 in Allies

A short film about the launch of a documentary featuring South African superstar Yvonne Chaka Chaka. "The Motherland Tour - A Journey of African Women" highlights the progress and challenges in the fight against global diseases and features inspiring stories from women across Africa.

Yvonne Chaka Chaka on BBC World News TV

Posted: September 21st, 2010 in Allies

Check out this interview with Yvonne Chaka Chaka in support of the Replenishment

No child born with HIV by 2015

Posted: September 20th, 2010 in Allies

ONE's latest video highlights something amazing: We now know how to stop the HIV virus from passing from a mother to her child -- and we can prevent any baby from being born with HIV. But we need President Obama's full support. Please add your name. It won't happen without our help.

Interview With Joyce Kamwana

Posted: September 15th, 2010 in Allies

Whispers From Children's Hearts Foundation along with the Global Fund present an interview with Joyce Kamwana who is an Ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, & Malaria.

The Current State of TB in French Guyana

Posted: September 15th, 2010 in Allies

Taking a look at TB/HIV co-infection & TB migration in French Guyana

Dr. Phiri Pt. 1

Posted: September 3rd, 2010 in Allies

Executive Director of the Lighthouse Trust, Dr. Phiri discusses the importance of the Global Fund and its impact on the work he does in his native Malawi.    

Dr. Phiri Pt. 2

Posted: September 3rd, 2010 in Allies

Executive Director of the Lighthouse Trust, Dr. Phiri discusses the importance of the Global Fund and why now is the time to focus on Global Fund replenishment to successfully reach the millennium development goals by 2015.    

ACT UP-Paris at International AIDS Conference in Vienna

Posted: August 2nd, 2010 in Allies

Video of Act Up-Paris challenging French AIDS Ambassador "Patrice Debre" to triple the contribution of France to the Global Fund at the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna (Austria).

Brown Bag Lunch With Gerry Elsdon Pt. 1

Posted: July 27th, 2010 in Allies

International star and TB advocate Gerry Elsdon sits down with the ACTION staff to discuss her personal battle with TB and the use of her celebrity to give a voice to others suffering with this disease.

Brown Bag Lunch With Gerry Elsdon Pt. 2

Posted: July 27th, 2010 in Allies

International star and TB advocate Gerry Elsdon sits down with the ACTION staff to discuss her personal battle with TB and the use of her celebrity to give a voice to others suffering with this disease.

The Lazarus Effect

Posted: July 13th, 2010 in Allies

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and the Born HIV Free campaign

Posted: July 13th, 2010 in Allies