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Photo of the Week: Reaching out to Street Children

Posted on Friday, 18 May 2012 | Photo of the Week

In Ukraine, Global Fund-supported efforts to prevent HIV among street children have increased significantly over the last years. Between 2007 and 2011...

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Video: Recap of the 26th Board Meeting by the Board Chair

Posted on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 | General, Global Fund Transformation

Global Fund Board Chair Simon Bland recaps the 26th Board Meeting in Geneva...

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Global Fund News Flash: Issue 01

Posted on Thursday, 10 May 2012 | Newsletter

A bulletin with news items about what’s going on at the Global Fund....

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Photo of the Week: Preventing the Spread of HIV in Guatemala

Posted on Thursday, 10 May 2012 | Photo of the Week

A commercial sex worker in Guatemala City uses condoms provided for free by outreach programs to prevent the spread of HIV. In countries where the ...

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Photo of the Week: Staying the Course

Posted on Thursday, 03 May 2012 | Photo of the Week

In Jordan, Egyptian-born Shehdeh (right) received medication after being diagnosed with TB. Although TB treatment normally requires a six month course...

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General Manager meets with United Nations Secretary General

Posted on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 | Global Fund Transformation

General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon on Tuesday, 24 April, to inform the Secretary General about...

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World Malaria Day: Time to redouble our efforts against malaria

Posted on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 | General

Most people would agree that the thought of anyone dying from a mosquito bite in the twenty first century is unacceptable...

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One Death by Mosquito Bite is too Many

Posted on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 | General

5 year old Ronnie was facing death after being infected with malaria. She was brought to Papua New Guinea’s Vanimo hospital one hour from her village...

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Sarah Boseley writes about the sweeping changes at the Global Fund

Posted on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 | Global Fund Transformation

Sarah Boseley of the Guardian writes about the seven weeks since Gabriel Jaramillo took over as the General Manager of the Global Fund. Boseley caught...

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Photo of the Week: Reaching Nomadic Populations

Posted on Thursday, 05 April 2012 | Photo of the Week

Anti-malaria outreach efforts in rural Nigeria reach nomadic villages deep in the bush, providing insecticide-treated nets, as well as treatment to pr...

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Photo of the Week: Eliminating Breeding Grounds

Posted on Monday, 02 April 2012 | Photo of the Week

Scouts from Bhutanese town of Gelephu visit neighboring villages to help the local community with malaria prevention measures. One important activity ...

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General Manager Discusses Global Fund Reorganisation

Posted on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 | Global Fund Transformation

In an interview, Gabriel Jaramillo, General Manager of the Global Fund, discusses the direction and achievements to date in transforming the Global Fu...

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Photo of the Week: Malaria Testing In Tribal Areas

Posted on Thursday, 22 March 2012 | Photo of the Week

A health worker talks to members of the Batak tribe in a remote area of the Philippines, where testing of 49 villagers resulted in seven confirmed cas...

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Photo of the Week: Training For AIDS Orphans

Posted on Thursday, 15 March 2012 | Photo of the Week

In Masaka, Uganda, teenage girls orphaned by AIDS learn hair styling techniques that will allow them to earn a living. After apprenticing with a maste...

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Photo of the Week: Back In The Fields

Posted on Thursday, 08 March 2012 | Photo of the Week

Penyambeko was so weak that she was unable to move before she started taking AIDS treatment. Her mother fed her and gave her medicine until she was st...

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Photo of the Week: Girl With Parrot

Posted on Thursday, 01 March 2012 | Photo of the Week

A young girl plays with her pet parrot in her home on the outskirts of the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara. Malaria is a fact of life in her househol...

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Curtains up! La Bohème World Premiere in Cape Town

Posted on Friday, 24 February 2012 | General

Last night in Cape Town, rapturous applause and a standing ovation in a packed auditorium concluded the world premiere of Isango Ensemble’s La Bohème,...

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Photo of the Week: Waiting for Consultation

Posted on Thursday, 23 February 2012 | Photo of the Week

PHOTO OF THE WEEK (23 FEBRUARY 2012) - A mother dresses her child while waiting for a consultation at the HIV clinic of Teneke Hospital, Tanzania. In ...

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La Bohème like you’ve never seen before

Posted on Friday, 17 February 2012 | General

Today, we are proud to announce a partnership that will bring an extraordinary version of La Bohème to theatres and opera houses around the world...

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Photo of the Week: Providing Health Through Cafeterias

Posted on Friday, 10 February 2012 | Photo of the Week

A Global Fund-supported program enables cafeterias in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to provide daily hot lunches to patients receiving TB treatment...

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A decade of European support to the Global Fund

Posted on Wednesday, 01 February 2012 | 10 Years of Impact

Yesterday in Paris, Friends of the Global Fund Europe, the Global Fund and its partners held a meeting to commemorate 10 years of partnership with the...

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10 Years of Impact Photo Project

Posted on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 | 10 Years of Impact

The amount of support we have seen on our 10th anniversary has been overwhelming. Last week, at the World Economic Forum...

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Global Fund supporters celebrate the Big 10 with us

Posted on Thursday, 26 January 2012 | 10 Years of Impact

Today we have warmly welcomed the announcement that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation strengthened their commitment to the Global Fund through...

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Celebrating the big 10

Posted on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 | 10 Years of Impact

On January 28, ten years ago, the Global Fund was created in response to the devastating effects of AIDS, tuberculosi...

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Join Bono, Bill Gates, and send us your photo!

Posted on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 | 10 Years of Impact

That's what the lineup of faces appearing onstage at our 10th anniversary celebration could look like. All we need is your photo....

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Launch of design improvements and Blog feature

Posted on Monday, 23 January 2012 | General

For the 10th anniversary of the Global Fund, and as part of the on-going improvements to our online platforms, the web site is seeing a numbe...

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