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We Will End AIDS Only If We Reduce Inequality
15 June 2021As vaccinations against COVID-19 ramp up across Europe and North America, many people are welcoming hugs from loved ones, restaurants and beaches are reopening and a return to a sense of normality in many countries is beckoning. -
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COVID-19 is causing a devastating oxygen crisis
11 June 2021The Global Fund is supporting low- and middle-income countries in procuring treatments including corticosteroids and medical oxygen. -
Feature Stories
20 Years of Partnership:
07 June 2021This month marks the 20th anniversary of a watershed event in the story of AIDS activism and the creation of the Global Fund: the first United Nations (UN) special session on HIV and AIDS. As the 2021 UN high-level meeting on HIV and AIDS kicks off, we showcase five examples of the many triumphs achieved by activists in two decades of fighting the pandemic. -
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Messages of support
07 June 2021Global Fund friends and supporters speak about pivotal moments in the first 20 years of our pioneering partnership. -
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20 Years – How We Changed The Story
07 June 20212021 is the year the Global Fund celebrates 20 years of making the impossible possible. -
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“The pandemic hurt everyone”: India’s oxygen crisis from the front lines
26 May 2021It was the suddenness and the intensity of the second COVID-19 wave that took everyone in India by surprise. “None of us were prepared for this speed of development, this kind of rapidity with which it developed,” Dr. Bornali Datta explains over the phone. “This time, the pandemic hurt everyone, it wasn’t this distant thing happening to somebody else, it was every family, everybody was affected.”
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News
G20 Reaffirms Commitment to ACT-A to Fight COVID-19
21 May 2021G20 leaders and heads of international and regional organizations reaffirmed their commitment to fight pandemics and support the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator –a ground breaking collaboration of global partners to accelerate the development, production and equitable delivery of new tests, treatments, vaccines and health supplies worldwide. -
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Global Fund 45th Board Meeting Reports Continued Progress Despite COVID-19 Pandemic
12 May 2021The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria overwhelmingly praised the continued progress of the Global Fund in the past year despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
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Global Fund Approves US$75 million for India’s COVID-19 Response
06 May 2021The Global Fund has approved US$75 million in fast-track funding to support India’s response to the COVID-19 crisis that is devastating the country. This new funding will support India in purchasing oxygen concentrators and Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants to help meet the medium-term needs for medical oxygen. -
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Indonesia, Germany and Global Fund Sign New Debt Swap Agreement to Fight TB
14 April 2021Germany, Indonesia, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today signed a new agreement that will increase support to tuberculosis programs in Indonesia. That will be achieved by converting €50 million of debt owed by Indonesia to Germany into investments in public health programs supported by the Global Fund in Indonesia. -
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Global Fund Thanks Germany for EUR 140 million Contribution
08 April 2021The Global Fund applauds Germany’s leadership in the global response to COVID-19 and warmly welcomes an additional contribution of EUR 140 million to support Global Fund efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries and mitigate the impact on HIV, tuberculosis and malaria programs, including through deploying diagnostic tests and protecting front-line health workers.
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Updates
India’s devastating COVID-19 crisis
03 May 2021India is facing a devastating COVID-19 outbreak. Having successfully managed the first pandemic wave in 2020, the country is now reeling from the gravity of a deadly second wave that is infecting over 300,000 people every single day. -
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Global Fund Applauds Netherlands’ Contribution to ACT-Accelerator
20 April 2021The Global Fund warmly welcomed the announcement by the Netherlands of a contribution of €52 million to the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator – a groundbreaking global collaboration to accelerate development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines. -
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The impact of COVID-19 on HIV, TB and malaria services and systems for health
13 April 2021A new report by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provides a snapshot detailing the impact of COVID-19 on health service delivery for HIV, TB and malaria in 32 countries across Africa and Asia, and highlights the adaptive measures that health facilities adopted to counter the disruption to their services caused by the pandemic. -
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Global Fund Board Approves Second Term for Executive Director Peter Sands
13 April 2021The Global Fund Board has approved a decision to extend Peter Sands’ term as Executive Director of the Global Fund for an additional four years, with effect from 1 March 2022. -
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The Global Fund’s Sixth Partnership Forums Generate Recommendations for the Next Global Fund Strategy
01 April 2021The Sixth Partnership Forums ended on 15 March, having convened approximately 350 representatives from across the Global Fund partnership in a series of engaging, inclusive and energetic discussions to contribute to the development of the next Global Fund Strategy. These forums brought together stakeholders from across the Global Fund partnership, through three regional meetings that spanned Eastern Europe and Latin America; Africa; and Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sixth Partnership Forums were convened virtually with stakeholders providing input through a mix of plenaries, topic booths and more than 130 breakout group discussions.
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Blog
We Will End AIDS Only If We Reduce Inequality
15 June 2021As vaccinations against COVID-19 ramp up across Europe and North America, many people are welcoming hugs from loved ones, restaurants and beaches are reopening and a return to a sense of normality in many countries is beckoning. -
Blog
“The pandemic hurt everyone”: India’s oxygen crisis from the front lines
26 May 2021It was the suddenness and the intensity of the second COVID-19 wave that took everyone in India by surprise. “None of us were prepared for this speed of development, this kind of rapidity with which it developed,” Dr. Bornali Datta explains over the phone. “This time, the pandemic hurt everyone, it wasn’t this distant thing happening to somebody else, it was every family, everybody was affected.” -
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Okinawa: Lighting a Flame for the Fight Against Infectious Diseases
03 May 2021In Okinawa, Japan, on Saturday a team of global health advocates and leaders from “The Global Fund ― From Okinawa” team carried the Olympic torch aloft, lighting the way for a world free from the burden of HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and COVID-19. -
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In Fighting COVID-19, We Can’t Neglect Malaria
25 April 2021World Malaria Day is a reminder that as the world battles with COVID-19, we still haven’t beaten a much older pandemic. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has plagued humanity for millennia and still kills over 400,000 people per year – mainly children under 5. In fact, that grim number will almost certainly have increased in 2020 and will do so again in 2021, as COVID-19 has severely disrupted malaria testing and treatment services in many of the most affected countries. -
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Malaria and COVID-19: Q&A with Dr. Scott Filler
22 April 2021With World Malaria Day on 25 April, Dr. Filler answers questions about the impact of COVID-19 on malaria and how we’re working to #UniteToFight the two diseases with our partners around the world. -
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On World TB Day, Crisis and Hope
24 March 2021In 2020, we all witnessed in real-time the deadly impact of an airborne pandemic. In just over a year, more than 2.6 million people have died from COVID-19.
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Messages of support
07 June 2021Global Fund friends and supporters speak about pivotal moments in the first 20 years of our pioneering partnership. -
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20 Years – How We Changed The Story
07 June 20212021 is the year the Global Fund celebrates 20 years of making the impossible possible. -
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Meet A Very Humble Hero
12 February 2021The condom is a three-time hero. It is the only contraceptive that fights HIV, sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. The Global Fund and UNFPA ensure condom availability worldwide as the largest public sector procurers – shipping more than 3.9 billion male and female condoms to 122 countries around the world in just four years. On International Condom Day we are celebrating this humble hero who saves lives and keeps people safe. -
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Loud and Clear: Community and Civil Society Voices in the 6th Global Fund Partnership Forum
02 February 2021Community and civil society voices are a critical part of the Global Fund partnership. During the 6th Partnership Forums, civil society and community members from around the world answered the question, “What is my wish for the next Global Fund strategy?” See their answers. -
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Support the Global Fund and Unite to Fight COVID-19
01 February 2021To play our part in the global fight against COVID-19, we urgently require at least $5 billion to cover the most urgent needs. In low- and middle-income countries, the knock-on effects of COVID-19 are creating a perfect storm. -
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A Doctor’s Plea from the Frontline: “It’s time we all made a stand”
30 November 2020Dr. Zolelwa Sifumba of South Africa, a TB and COVID-19 survivor herself, talks about the challenges of providing care and fighting infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. “COVID-19 not only takes lives, but is causing losses from various previously well-controlled conditions. We risk losing all the gains that we have made against HIV, TB or malaria.”
