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22 June 2022
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Here’s How I Survived Malaria
It’s been decades since I fell ill from malaria as a young girl, but I remember the feeling like it was yesterday. My body was weak and I couldn’t eat, sleep or go to school. -
20 June 2022
President Kenyatta: We Need Vaccines and Investment to Tip the Scales Against Malaria
Commonwealth leaders meet in the Rwandan capital Kigali this week. They have an opportunity to accelerate the fight against infectious diseases, including malaria, while also building resilient health systems that can protect the world from the next ... -
20 June 2022
Former PMs Urge Government to Increase Spending on Infectious Diseases After COVID-19 Setbacks
Two former British prime ministers have urged the government to increase spending on tackling AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, after the pandemic reversed recent gains that have been made in eradicating the three diseases. -
16 May 2022
Ukrainian LGBTI Activist on Breaking Down Barriers to Health Despite Deadly Conflict
I had imagined this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia very differently. In a normal year, Ukraine’s LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) community uses this day to make our voices heard, educate... -
24 March 2022
The Pivotal Role the Private Sector Can Play in Fight Against TB
The fight against TB has been a long and arduous one. In the 20 years that the Global Fund has been operating, the TB burden has been declining steadily, but the threat of multidrug-resistant TB looms large, and in 2020, the arrival of COVID-19 set u... -
31 January 2022
Fighting AIDS and COVID-19 Depend on a Firm Foundation
Twenty years ago, the world faced a devastating pandemic that was spreading rapidly around the world. Then, 5 million people were being infected with HIV and 3 million were dying from AIDS each year. -
13 January 2022
Data Agility: A Fashionable Term, or a Game Changer for Global Health?
In the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it have caused a massive disruption of essential health services, especially those supporting prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. Despite global effo... -
01 December 2021
The Next Chapter of Our Fight Against HIV
Pandemics exacerbate and thrive on inequity. They find the fissures in our societies and deepen them. As a result, the poorest and most marginalized always suffer the most. -
22 November 2021
“We must invest in our healers”: Dr. Zolelwa Sifumba is Fighting for Health Workers on the Front Line
Dr. Zolelwa Sifumba is a health worker, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) survivor, Global Fund advocate and global health activist in South Africa, and Community Representative in the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT-) Accelerator. -
14 October 2021
Drug-resistant TB: Business As Usual No Longer An Option
I have spent the last 25 years working to prevent tuberculosis and treat people with the disease. I have seen firsthand the devastating consequences, including from drug resistant TB, which is more deadly and more difficult and expensive to treat.