2020
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12 May 2020Amid COVID-19, Communities Continue Fight against Other Pandemics
By Linda Mafu, Head of Political and Civil Society Advocacy at the Global Fund
At the International AIDS conference in 2000 I joined an activist community that barreled through the streets of Durban demanding universal access to HIV treatment. At the time, the treatment was only accessible to the rich – it cost more than US$10,... -
The COVID-19 lockdowns are making it difficult for vulnerable people to access critical health services, particularly in remote communities. In northern Uganda, the lockdown and restrictions on transport are a barrier to accessing health services for... -
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25 April 2020
All the More United in Our Fight Against Malaria - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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24 April 2020
It is Time to Unite to Fight against Malaria - By Scott Filler, Malaria Senior Disease Coordinator at the Global Fund
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Covid-19 is like a drama in which each act eclipses the one before. First, it was Wuhan. Then it moved to Europe. Now it’s accelerating in the United States. But the act that could overshadow all is when Covid-19 takes off in Africa. -
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27 March 2020Re-thinking Global Health Security
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
As the G7 and G20 strive to coordinate the global response to the COVID-19 crisis, policymakers are being bombarded with proposals about creating new funds, new institutions, and new initiatives, all requiring billions of dollars. -
25 March 2020When Finance Fails: Why Economists Didn’t See a Coronavirus Collapse Coming
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
If being the CEO of a major international bank and now the head of a global health organization has taught me one thing, it’s that there’s a chasm of mutual incomprehension between the worlds of global finance and global health. -
23 March 2020Fighting Tuberculosis: Lessons for COVID-19
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
As governments around the world struggle to contain spiraling infections and an ever-increasing death toll from COVID-19, it’s worth reflecting on what lessons we can draw from the long and still unfinished fight against tuberculosis – the world’s mo... -
At the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, we are acutely conscious that the people we serve, the poorest and most marginalized across the world who suffer most from HIV, TB and malaria, are also likely to be the most affected by COV... -
22 January 2020Ending Tuberculosis is Good for Business - New Initiative Launched to End Tuberculosis in the Workplace
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting, a multi-sectoral group of partners today launched a new initiative – called Ending Workplace Tuberculosis – aimed at engaging major businesses in the fight against tuberculosis