A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
 

In the past several weeks, ACTION partners engaged in TB advocacy 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 7^th Replenishment. Partners across Africa, Europe, and North America held events, lead social media campaigns, engaged members of parliament, and more to mark the day.

In an exciting announcement from the White House 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 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 alongside 7 CSOs to address global health in the French Presidential Election. The campaign is calling for candidates to include global health in their programs. Partners, including CITAM+ in Zambia, will follow up on the CEPI replenishment summit 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, CEO of Results Australia, 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 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

GFF Advocacy

RESOURCES AND BLOGS 

• In a World Increasingly Defined By Crises, We Need Women’s Leadership Like Never Before in Ms. Magazine by Dr. Vineeta Gupta, Negaya Chorley, and Dr. Kavita Patel.           
• Malnutrition is sexist, blog by RESULTS UK
• Nutrition Under Siege, Again from Standing Together for Nutrition
• Reclaiming the gains for women and girls: Let’s listen to community advocates from World Bank Blogs.
• World TB Day: experiences of TB in Kenya, blog by RESULTS UK
• The voices of the fight against the 3 pandemics, 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.
• Stop TB Canada March Newsletter
• COVID-19 derails global quest to end tuberculosis by Leigh Raithby of Results Canada, published in the Hill Times.
• Why we must eradicate tuberculosis, blog by RESULTS Manchester and RESULTS Brighton