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Young people stand to benefit the most from a world free of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. The World Bank projects that the number of young people globally could increase to nearly 1.3 billion by 2030, up from 1.2 billion in 2015. Yet, despite t... -
When I was four years old, I lost my father to malaria. Since then, I’ve lost my baby niece, I almost lost my mother, and I came close to death myself. All because of malaria.
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10 July 2025How AI Is Accelerating the Fight Against an Ancient Killer
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease – an ancient killer that still claims over a million lives each year, mostly among the world’s poorest and hardest-to-reach. Yet we are on the brink of a new era of progress in the fi... -
09 July 2025The First Generation Without AIDS Is Within Reach If We Refuse to Settle
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
We stand at the edge of an extraordinary possibility: to end the AIDS pandemic, eliminating HIV as a public health threat. Over the last few decades, more than 40 million people have died of AIDS and there are another 39 million people living with HI... -
I was 18 when I was diagnosed with HIV. The months leading up to my diagnosis were filled with fear and confusion. I wanted to donate blood, to do something good – but what followed was a series of healthcare missteps and poor communication. Eventual...
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I was pregnant with my first child when I was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). I’d already suffered years of misdiagnosis. In an instant, all the joy I felt as an expectant mother turned to fear and anxiety. -
23 April 2025Ending Malaria Makes Everyone Healthier, Safer and More Prosperous
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
A few months ago, alarm bells rang across global health networks as a mysterious disease emerged in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The outbreak seemed to defy easy explanation — it was circulating in the remote parts of th... -
24 March 2025Long Seen as the “Pandemic of the Poor”, TB is a Threat to us All
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) has regained its position as the number 1 infectious disease killer worldwide, causing 1.25 million deaths in 2023. As a respiratory infection prone to drug resistance, TB poses a looming threa... -
Many of the countries most affected by malaria are also on the front lines of climate change. In sub-Saharan Africa, where a child dies of malaria every minute, shifting weather patterns – from intense rainfall to extreme heatwaves and prolonged drou...
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Twenty years ago, beating back HIV seemed an almost impossible dream. The disease was ravaging communities across the world, taking a huge toll on lives and societies. Since then, we have come an extraordinarily long way and seen great leaps in preve...