2020
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17 December 2020Data saves lives. To end HIV, we must improve key population data collection now.
By Jinkou (Button) Zhao, Senior Specialist, Monitoring & Evaluation
Forty years after the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, the world is still struggling to collect quality data on the people who are the most affected by HIV, impeding the progress towards the eradication of the disease. -
10 December 2020Put Human Rights at the Centre of our Battle Against COVID-19
By Peter Sands and Antonio Zappulla
Throughout history, people have faced pandemics: the bubonic plague, smallpox, influenza, HIV and now COVID-19. Pandemics affect people of every creed, color and class. But they do not affect everyone equally. -
02 December 2020How the lessons the world learned in the fight against HIV can help us defeat COVID-19
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
World AIDS Day reminds us that while we battle to contain COVID-19, we still haven’t finished the fight against the last big pandemic to hit humanity. After four decades and the loss of over 32 million lives, the battle against HIV is still unwon. -
01 December 2020Without Equity, We Cannot End COVID-19, HIV Or Any Other Pandemic
By Peter Sands and Mark Vermeulen
While COVID-19 continues to accelerate around the world, the last few weeks have seen new optimism in the fight against the pandemic. Pfizer and Moderna have shared data showing their vaccines are more than 90% effective. People now dare to dream tha... -
19 November 2020COVID-19 must transform the definition of global health security
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
The recent announcements that multiple new coronavirus vaccines are showing strong results provide hope that life will eventually return to normal and the catastrophic death toll will end – good news we all desperately need right now. -
19 November 2020Why drug-resistant tuberculosis poses a major risk to global health security
By Dr. Eliud Wandwalo, Head of Tuberculosis Department
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a form of antimicrobial resistance that is difficult and costly to treat. It is caused by TB bacteria that are resistant to at least one of the first-line existing TB medications, resulting in fewer treatment op... -
29 September 2020
COVID-19 Rapid Tests: A Milestone in Fight Against the Pandemic - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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21 September 2020
COVID-19 is a Turning Point for Infectious Diseases - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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03 September 2020
Conversation with Francoise Vanni (in Italian) With Françoise Vanni, Head of External Relations and Communications at the Global Fund
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21 July 2020Strengthening Data Systems to Save Lives
Building resilient and sustainable systems for health has never been more critical. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains globally and threatens to reverse the hard-won gains made in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria. In countries whe... -
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13 July 2020
The "Huge Amount at Stake" for HIV Progress With Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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10 June 2020In Kenya, A Chance to See Communities Confront COVID-19
By Ernest Waititu, Staff at the Global Fund
It feels like a year ago now. But it was on 19 March, when I left for my hometown of Nairobi from Geneva, where I live and work. I landed in Nairobi on the morning of 20 March, a week after Kenya had confirmed its first case of the coronavirus and a ... -
Sex workers in Africa are among the communities suffering the most due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as lockdowns and police crackdowns leave millions without income. Sex workers have always been vulnerable to violence and infectious diseases such as HI... -
27 May 2020COVID-19 Threatens to Derail Fight Against HIV, TB and Malaria
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
As COVID-19 ravages the world, the fight against HIV, TB and malaria is acutely at risk. That fight is not merely at risk of getting knocked off course – it can be derailed entirely. -