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29 August 2023
India and the Global Fund: A strategic partnership with a national, regional, and global future
How the global fight against HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria is an opportunity for India’s pharmaceutical industry and other private-sector companies. -
12 August 2023
A Letter To My Younger Self: Reflecting on African Queer Activism for International Youth Day
Dear Dumi, I write to you as a testament to endurance and resilience. I know you are reeling with confusion and grief with little understanding of what happened to you during adolescence. Living in a world that defines you as a victim with much 'need... -
14 July 2023
Japan’s Fight Against TB Can Be a Roadmap for Pandemic Preparedness
In March this year, I visited Japan for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Although I have been to the country several times before, every time I walk Tokyo’s vibrant streets I am still struck by the sheer volume of people who live, work and... -
29 June 2023
Pop-Up Booths to the Rescue in the Fight Against TB in Kenya
In August 2022 Josphat Muoki, a father of four from Nairobi, Kenya, discovered he had TB when he stopped at a pop-up screening station on a busy pedestrian bridge over Nairobi Central Railway Station. The bridge links the city and the industrial zone... -
16 June 2023
It’s Time to Overcome Gender Inequality in the Fight Against HIV
Last year I met a woman called Shani Ally in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Shani leads a full life as a mother, wife and small-business owner. She has also been on HIV treatment for more than 20 years. That treatment has kept her alive and prevented the t... -
25 May 2023
One Mozambican Woman’s Fight Against Malaria – “the Devil” That Took Her Husband’s Life
“Malaria is the devil that came to my house,” Celina Tembe says softly, her hand touching the head of her 3-year-old daughter, Manuela Manuel. In August last year, her 35-year-old husband, Manuel Maxaieie, came home late from work as a machine operat... -
16 May 2023
We Will Only Beat HIV if We Protect the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ People Everywhere
On this International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we can celebrate some important steps forward for the rights of LGBTQI+ people, and thus progress in the fight against HIV. -
15 May 2023
President Museveni, Please Tear Up This Bill
A toxic wave of homophobia is surging across East Africa. It is crashing down in Uganda, where members of parliament recently passed a bill that makes being gay a crime that is punishable by death and not reporting homosexuality a criminal offense. -
10 May 2023
The Challenge of Malaria
In February 2020, just before COVID-19 made such trips impossible, I visited a village in the Kongo Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and talked to a community health worker, called François Mvueki. Looking at his daily logbook... -
05 May 2023
Felled by a Warming World: Will Malaria Be the Next Pandemic?
The next global health crisis might not be another pandemic caused by a novel respiratory infection. Instead, we could see climate change dramatically increasing the threat from an existing infectious disease–for example, malaria, a disease that kill...