ACTION partners engaged in deep advocacy on World TB Day, are leveraging the electoral process to elevate civil society's asks, and more!

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** Dr. Vineeta Gupta A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

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Dear all,

In the past several weeks, ACTION partners engaged in TB advocacy ([link removed]) around World TB Day to spread awareness of the oldest epidemic and help garner financial commitments to #EndTB, particularly ahead of the Global Fund’s 7th Replenishment ([link removed]) . Partners across Africa, Europe, and North America held events ([link removed]) , lead social media campaigns ([link removed]) , engaged members of parliament ([link removed]) , and more to mark the day.

In an exciting announcement from the White House ([link removed]) on March 28, we saw a positive outcome of this vital advocacy. The U.S., who will host the Global Fund’s next pledging conference this fall, demonstrated leadership by pledging $6 billion to the replenishment. This pledge is an important step in ending AIDS, TB, and malaria and strengthening health care delivery systems, and building momentum for additional governments to make bold pledges.

Looking ahead, partners are leveraging the advocacy opportunities that electoral processes bring, like GHA France ([link removed]) and Results Australia. GHA has been elevating civil society’s asks with candidates and their advisors. On March 2, they launched a Global Health Campaign ([link removed]) alongside 7 CSOs to address global health in the French Presidential Election. The campaign ([link removed]) is calling for candidates to include global health in their programs. Partners, including CITAM+ in Zambia, will follow up on the CEPI replenishment summit ([link removed]) to garner additional commitments to end the pandemics of today and
tomorrow.

I, alongside two other women leaders in global health, published a piece in MsMagazine titled “In a World Increasingly Defined By Crises, We Need Women’s Leadership Like Never Before.” Negaya Chorley ([link removed]) , CEO of Results Australia ([link removed]) , Kavita Patel, primary care physician and former advisor to the Obama administration, and I argue that the world needs more women in top leadership roles and male leaders who are willing to embrace the qualities that many women leaders exemplified at the onset of the pandemic.

We are gearing up for a busy Spring ahead of World Immunization Week, the World Health Assembly, and more. Follow and engage with us on Twitter ([link removed]) to stay up to date on the partnership’s latest achievements and advocacy asks.

In solidarity,
Vineeta

Vineeta Gupta, MD, JD, LL.M
Director, ACTION Secretariat

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** World TB Day Advocacy
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* To spread awareness about TB in Tanzania, HDT recorded a short video ([link removed]) with 8 people of different backgrounds describing their experience with TB. On social media ([link removed]) , they invited challenge participants to record their own video, receiving more than 30 video clips with more than 200,000 views to date. HDT will announce three challenge winners in the coming weeks.
* At Results Canada’s World TB Day event ([link removed]) , Honourable Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan announced a commitment of CAD$11 million ([link removed]) to TB REACH. ([link removed]) This investment will contribute to finding people with TB in hard-to-reach communities so that they get the care they need, supporting community-led initiatives and filling gaps in service delivery caused by the pandemic.
* RESULTS UK hosted a well-attended reception in Parliament for MPs, Lords, and other stakeholders to celebrate World TB Day. The room heard from Scott Boule of the Global Fund on the importance of the upcoming replenishment campaign, as well as members of the UKAPTB ([link removed]) . The APPG ([link removed]) also released a report that looks at the gap in international targets ahead of the UNHLM 2023 ([link removed]) .

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** GFF Advocacy
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Solange Kone, co-founder of ASAPSU, joined the GFF to talk about COVID-19’s impacts on health systems in Cote d’Ivoire and how communities, child heath workers, and CSOs have mobilized to protect essential healthcare services. Watch here ([link removed]) .

WACI Health hosted a live Twitter chat ([link removed]) to enhance youth engagement in GFF resource mobilization efforts. Youth leaders shared their thoughts ([link removed]) on what the GFF represents for them and what the GFF has helped achieved in their country. They recorded individual messages ([link removed]) inviting the Head of State in their respective countries to invest in the GFF to make health services more accessible to women, children, and adolescents. Read more here ([link removed]) .
Engaging Governments in ACTION Markets

On the second anniversary of the WHO announcing COVID-19 as a pandemic, RESULTS UK organized a social media campaign ([link removed]) and took part in the People’s Vaccine Alliance ([link removed]) ’s video to mark the grim anniversary on March 11, calling on the UK Government to play its part in the global pandemic response.

Alongside 7 CSOs, GHA France, Paris office launched the advocacy and communications campaign #FairePlusPourLaSantéMondiale ([link removed]) (more action for global health) to address global health in the French Presidential Election. The campaign is calling out the different candidates to include global health in their program.
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** RESOURCES AND BLOGS
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* In a World Increasingly Defined By Crises, We Need Women’s Leadership Like Never Before ([link removed]) in Ms. Magazine by Dr. Vineeta Gupta, Negaya Chorley, and Dr. Kavita Patel.
* Malnutrition is sexist ([link removed]) , blog by RESULTS UK
* Nutrition Under Siege, Again ([link removed]) from Standing Together for Nutrition
* Reclaiming the gains for women and girls: Let’s listen to community advocates ([link removed]) from World Bank Blogs.
* World TB Day: experiences of TB in Kenya, ([link removed]) blog by RESULTS UK
* The voices of the fight against the 3 pandemics ([link removed]) , blog by GHA.
* GHA published an article to call on the European Union and Member States to increase their investment in R&I for neglected and poverty-related diseases (NRDs): L’UE doit investir davantage en R&I pour les maladies négligées et liées à la pauvreté ([link removed]) .
* Stop TB Canada March Newsletter ([link removed])
* COVID-19 derails global quest to end tuberculosis ([link removed]) by Leigh Raithby of Results Canada, published in the Hill Times.
* Why we must eradicate tuberculosis ([link removed]) , blog by RESULTS Manchester and RESULTS Brighton

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