Date |
RESULTS Person |
Medium |
Item |
Description |
April 18, 2014 |
Sue Oehser |
Oakland Tribune |
Letter |
(pdf) Officials must expand public health funding (drug-resistant TB increasing; most TB cases curable; we must expand funding for public health programs in California, the United States, and globally) |
April 30, 2014 |
Sharon Solstice |
Contra Costa Times |
Letter |
(pdf) America can help raise global literacy (At June's GPE pledging conference, the United States should pledge $250 million over two years, and become a leader in support of global education) |
April 30, 2014 |
Willie Dickerson |
San Francisco Chronicle |
Letter |
(pdf) Grads, help the world (The Global Partnership for Education and America's $250 million contribution are helping educate the 57 million children not in school) |
May 18, 2014 |
Lori Saltveit |
Marin Independent Journal |
Letter |
All kids need schools (U.S. government needs to commit $250 million over two years at the Global Partnership for Education pledging conference) |
July 28, 2014 |
Willie Dickerson |
Sacramento Bee |
Letter |
Solutions to inequality in America (Congress needs to hear from citizens in support of Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Credit) |
August 14, 2014 |
Sue Oehser |
News Enterprise (North Creek, NY) |
Letter |
Editorial thought provoking Ebola is thought-provoking but MDR-TB far more costly to treat; Gavi has vaccinated hundreds of millions of children and saved 6 million lives since 2000; ask your Member of Congress to cosponsor H.Res.688) |
September 19, 2014 |
Bruce Preville |
San Jose Mercury News |
Letter |
Fight Ebola by backing plans such as Gavi (Gavi creates plans to vaccinate all children in many developing countries; tell Congress that to save lives, Gavi must receive the full $7.5 billion it needs in January, with $1 billion of that coming from United States) |
September 22, 2014 |
Tari Nicholson |
Contra Costa Times |
Letter |
(pdf) Support the GAVI against diseases (The United States can lead in funding GAVI and cut child deaths from easily preventable diseases) |
September 25, 2014 |
Sandra Eagle |
San Francisco Chronicle |
Opinion |
Eagle: The 17,000 children who died today (Call your member of Congress and ask them to support the resolution (in the House and Senate) to support full funding for GAVI) |
September 23, 2014 |
Willie Dickerson |
Sacramento Bee |
Letter |
Speaking up to fight Ebola (Congress needs to hear from citizens in support of $250 million annually for Gavi, the vaccine alliance) |
October 7, 2014 |
Jim Driggers |
Contra Costa Times |
Letter |
(pdf) Encouraged by rare bipartisan support (Gavi saves children from preventable deaths, strengthens national health systems, reduces vaccine costs, and expands markets for pharmaceutical companies; it deserves broad, bipartisan support) |
October 17, 2014 |
Sue Oehser |
The Post Star (Glens Falls, NY) |
Letter |
Owens made right call on resolution (I thank Rep. Bill Owens for cosponsoring H.Res.688 in support of Gavi; we need to strengthen global health care) |
November 19, 2014 |
Bill Nicholson |
Contra Costa Times |
Letter |
(pdf) Lives are saved with needed vaccinations (Urge Obama administration to pledge $1 billion over 4 years for Gavi) |