Global Health Advocates France
ACTION is an International Partnership of Civil Society Advocates
ACTION’s mission is to build support for increased resources for effective TB control, especially among key policymakers and other opinion leaders in both high TB burden countries and donor countries. With effective policy advocacy and greater political will, rapid progress can be made against the global TB epidemic.
Global Health Advocates France
Background: Established in September 2001, Global Health Advocates functions as a network of professionals from the private sector and NGO community focusing its activities in the areas of global advocacy and partnership building.
Mission: Coordinate social movement against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases of poverty.
GHA France has been instrumental in working towards ACTION’s goals.
- GHA France has played key roles in raising awareness of TB among French policymakers, including organization of a parliamentary delegation to Burkina Faso in March 2009.
- GHA France, along with other European CSOs, continues to raise awareness about the need to fully fund the Global Fund to European decision makers. In 2009, they helped launch the “Remind the Gap” campaign, securing the support of over 100 organizations from 25 countries.
- GHA France catalyzed the establishment of the Europe TB Coalition, the first Coalition to address TB within the European Union.
