June 2009
Ethiopia
HIV-positive women often learn their status when they attend a prenatal clinic where all pregnant women are encouraged to get tested.
May 2009
Ethiopia
The Hope for Life association gives advice to women and provides home care services.
May 2009
Ethiopia
TB treatment, financed by the Global Fund, is available at all health clinics across the country.
May 2009
Ethiopia
The number of children who die from malaria has been reduced by 62 percent in just three years.
April 2009
Zambia
In Zambia, cases of deaths from malaria have fallen by two-thirds.
March 2009
Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, religious leaders are speaking openly about responsible sexual behavior and how to protect against HIV/AIDS.
February 2009
Sudan
Access to cars and motorbikes makes the difference in Southern Sudan.
July 2008
West Africa
A traveling caravan to fight AIDS has brought prevention messages to four million people.
June 2008
Brazil
A health campaign is a breath of fresh air in a country of entrenched apathy towards tuberculosis.
June 2008
Argentina
A catchy song from the suburbs promotes condom use in Argentina.
May 2008
Lesotho
Thousands of traditional healers are helping in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) in Lesotho.
May 2008
Niger
The number of cases of malaria in Niger have been cut by one third and the number of people dying of malaria has been reduced by half.
April 2008
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan has taken the regional lead in using methadone, a synthetic drug, as a substitute for heroin to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.
April 2008
Philippines
Nearly 300 women from remote villages have been trained to use a microscope to detect the presence of malaria by identifying the parasite from a blood smear.
February 2008
Mauritania
A lone voice speaks out against stigma.
February 2008
Madagascar
In the most isolated villages in Madagascar, where roads are very bad or non-existent, puppet theatres performed by community members have proven highly effective in improving general knowledge about malaria.
February 2008
Madagascar
Big screen entertainment has proven to be highly effective at engaging communities in the fight against Malaria.
January 2008
Azerbaijan
Two years ago, Azerbaijan's health system had no program on AIDS targeting youth. Now it is helping to administer an innovative youth education program, despite the failure of similar projects in more liberal countries.
January 2008
Serbia
In five years, with Global Fund support, the number of people ill with TB has seen a 25 percent decrease from 3,700 per year to 2,800. Serbia is confident it will lower this further down to 2,500 by the end of 2009.
November 2007
Suriname
Bed nets are adapted to the needs of indigenous people living deep in the rain forest.
April 2007
Thailand
These Buddhist, Christian and Muslim organizations already have a lot resources and trust from the communities. The Global Fund money adds value to this...
April 2007
Zanzibar
Since she got the bed net, my daughter has only been to the hospital twice during the year...
April 2007
Tanzania
One look into Ramadhani's eyes is enough to tell just how much agony he underwent when his father suddenly died due to AIDS...
April 2007
Philippines
When his employers learned that Rodante had tested positive for TB, they promptly sacked him...
April 2007
Romania
In Romania, a country with ten times more new TB infections than the European Union average, over 27,000 members of the Roma community have been informed on ways to prevent TB, recognize its symptoms, and know where to receive free treatment...
March 2007
Uganda
At the inauguration ceremony for its board in Rwanda, 'Friends of the Global Fund Africa' (FOFA) gave its first Award for Commitment against AIDS to a man of strong faith...
March 2007
Djibouti
When Aisha Bogori, a mother of nine, learned and told her husband that she was HIV+, he kicked her out of the house...
February 2007
Thailand
In Thailand, where over 90% of the population is Buddhist, monks play an essential role in the population's spiritual guidance and support...
February 2007
Congo (DRC)
In Kisangani, a town recovering from a long history of brutal war and extreme poverty, Vital Risasi and his peers living with AIDS influenced organizations to fund clinics, and convinced thousands to get tested for HIV in the last 2 years...
February 2007
Togo
In only four years, HIV prevalence among the general population in Togo has been reduced by nearly half. Prevention and treatment campaigns implemented by Population Services International...
February 2007
Uganda
Many companies lose thousands of dollars each year when just one employee contracts HIV and begins falling sick. Realizing this, over 50 businesses in Uganda have joined an innovative project to fight AIDS around the country...
February 2007
Cuba
Until 1993, people living with HIV/AIDS in Cuba had little or no access to drugs and would be forcefully isolated from the rest of society...
November 2006
Macedonia
When a Methadone Centre and Needle exchange site was built in his hometown with Global Fund support...
October 2006
Ukraine
Growing up, Andriy Klepikov witnessed some of his friends become drug addicts and contract HIV while injecting drugs. This is one of the reasons which motivated him to fight AIDS later in life. He now leads Ukraine's largest NGO, serving over 90,000 drug users, some of whom are undergoing treatment for AIDS...
October 2006
Burundi
Francoise Ndayishimiye is a particularly inspiring woman. 13 years ago, even before she discovered her HIV positive status, she joined the fight against AIDS in Burundi, one of the world's poorest countries. She is now one of over 544,000 currently receiving treatment through Global Fund support...
October 2006
South Africa
Over 600,000 Orphans and other children affected by AIDS are receiving care and treatment through Global Fund support...
September 2008
China
The People's Republic of China accounts for nearly 17 percent of the world's tuberculosis burden, with estimated 1.5 million new cases and approximately 270,000 deaths each year...
August 2006
Cote d'Ivoire
Cote d'Ivoire has reached over 250,000 people through peer group discussions and mass campaigns. These aim to change behavior among the military and populations who live around military bases...
August 2006
Somalia
Despite many challenges related to war and nomadic migration, the TB grant to Somalia has achieved outstanding results: Over 20,000 TB patients have been diagnosed and treated in less than 2 years. Somalia, which has been at war since 1991, is now divided into three zones: Somaliland, Puntland and South Central Somalia...
July 2006
Central African Republic
Ten years ago, after her baby girl died of AIDS, Donatienne Fetia was one of the first people in the Central African Republic to go public with her HIV positive status...
July 2006
Pakistan
While HIV is not a dominant epidemic in the adult population of Pakistan, the government is taking proactive measures to contain the spread of the disease among the country's 150 million inhabitants...
December 2005
Niger
From 19 to 24 December 2005, more than 2 million long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets are distributed to all the mothers with children under five in Niger. Over 3.5 million children are thus going to be protected against malaria...
December 2004
Cambodia
Cambodia, a country with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in Asia, is showing encouraging progress in the fight against the spread of the virus. The number of new infections has gone from 100 a day in 1997 to 20 in 2004...
November 2004
India
In the last six years, India's national TB program dramatically increased its TB coverage from 18 million to 800 million people and aims to extend all of its TB diagnosis and treatment services to its one billion citizens by the end of 2005...
October 2004
Kenya
The grassroots self-help community organisation KENWA is currently reaching about 470,000 people through a country-wide membership of 2,430 women who are living with the disease themselves...
July 2004
Cambodia
Everett writes "Cambodia is facing an AIDS crisis virtually unparalleled in the rest of Asia. The nation's health-care system is woefully overmatched and the average person lives on about five dollars a day..."
June 2003
Kenya
She was only 22 years old, fresh and green from a sheltered life in rural Nyeri. She landed in the glittering city of contrasts that is Nairobi to pursue a diploma in nursing...
June 2003
Haiti
Haiti faces the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Western Hemisphere. Across this small island nation an estimated 300,000 people-6 percent of the adult population -live with HIV/AIDS. Last year, approximately 30,000 Haitians died of the disease, the leading cause of death among sexually active adults and young people...
June 2003
India
In India today more than four million people are infected with HIV/AIDS- which represents nearly 10 percent of the global burden for this disease. Experts warn that many more could already be HIV positive and that current trends could lead to 25 million Indians living with HIV by 2010 if programs for prevention and treatment are not substantially enhanced and implemented over the short term...
June 2003
Panama
To date, the DOTS program has been implemented in 3% of indigenous communities in Panama. Global Fund grants will help health workers to reach 85% of these communities, and cut the mortality rate by half...
June 2003
Rwanda
The adult prevalence of HIV is estimated to be greater than 13 percent, which distinguishes Rwanda as one of the 10 most affected countries in sub-Saharan Africa...
June 2003
Sri Lanka
For the farmers in this agrarian region, a malaria epidemic can be crippling. Sick and unable to work, a family may be left without both food and an income...
June 2003
Ukraine
The most important thing is not letting HIV into your heart and soul...
February 2003
Madagascar
According to the Ministry of Health, malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Madagascar, with more than 1.4 million cases and nearly 30,000 deaths reported in 2000.
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