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25 April 2024
The Women Leading the Charge Against Malaria in Cameroon
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
We have new tools, but it is the health workers on the frontline who make the difference against malaria. -
25 April 2024
To End Malaria, We Must Advance Health Equity
By Scott Filler, Head of Malaria at the Global Fund
The fight against malaria is at a pivotal point. In recent years, the progress we have made against this disease has ground to a halt, particularly in countries that carry a high burden of the disease. -
25 April 2024
How Innovative Partnerships Accelerated Access to New Malaria Tools
A rapidly changing global health landscape—marked by climate change, conflict, drug and insecticide resistance—threatens to reverse progress against the mosquito-borne disease malaria. One of the oldest and deadliest infections, malaria claimed 608,0... -
18 April 2024
To End AIDS, We Must Reclaim Our Unyielding Pursuit of Equity
By Adv. Bience Gawanas, Vice-Chair of the Global Fund Board
As HIV practitioners gather this week in Yaoundé for AFRAVIH, the largest international Francophone conference on HIV/AIDS, and a few months before the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich, the Vice-Chair of the Global Fund Board urges renewe... -
16 April 2024
Empower African Youth So They Can Put an End to AIDS
By Patrick Fouda, Co-founder and Executive Director of the West and Central Africa Network of Positive Adolescents and Youth (RAJ+ AOC)
Ahead of the largest French-language international conference on AIDS—to take place in Yaoundé from April 15 to 19 (AFRAVIH)—the RAJ+ AOC group of activists and social entrepreneurs and one of its leaders, Patrick Fouda, are urging African societies ... -
09 April 2024
Community Health Workers Bridge the Gap
Community health workers play a central role in fighting HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. They are essential to build resilient health systems that can respond to new health threats and provide health care for all. -
22 March 2024
New Tools and Transformative Partnerships Can Help End TB
By Dr. Mohammed Yassin, Senior TB Advisor, the Global Fund
It appears new, lifechanging technologies come on the scene more and more with each passing year. In November 2022, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT dominated global headlines; by January 2023, the digital application had more than 100 m... -
22 March 2024
TB: No Longer the Forgotten Pandemic?
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
For far too long, TB has been “the forgotten pandemic”: killing millions, but attracting a tiny fraction of the attention and resources that have been devoted to COVID-19 or even HIV. Yet now the fight against TB has remarkable momentum. In many coun... -
21 March 2024
With Fresh Momentum, a Pivotal Moment for the Fight Against TB
By Eliud Wandwalo, Head of Tuberculosis, the Global Fund
In the fight against tuberculosis (TB), we may be on the cusp of an era of remarkable progress. The end of TB may not be here yet, but if the world grabs the momentum we have built in the last two years in the fight against this disease, we can make ... -
20 March 2024
Meet Mira Alimbaeva, drug-resistant TB survivor and Kyrgyz activist
Mira Alimbaeva, from Kyrgyzstan, holds a master’s degree in international relations from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and is a member of the Global Fund Youth Council. She advocates for TB patients and raises awareness on TB stigma and discri...