2021

28 April 2021

We must scale-up the global response to COVID-19. This needs more than vaccines - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
25 April 2021

In Fighting COVID-19, We Can’t Neglect Malaria

By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund

World Malaria Day is a reminder that as the world battles with COVID-19, we still haven’t beaten a much older pandemic. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has plagued humanity for millennia and still kills over 400,000 people per year – mainly ...
23 April 2021

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, testing is as vital as ever - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund and Emma Hannay, Chief Access Officer at FIND
22 April 2021

Malaria and COVID-19: Q&A with Dr. Scott Filler

By Scott Filler, Head of Malaria

With World Malaria Day on 25 April, Dr. Filler answers questions about the impact of COVID-19 on malaria and how we’re working to unite to fight the two diseases with our partners around the world.
24 March 2021

On World TB Day, Crisis and Hope

By Peter Sands, Executive Director

In 2020, we all witnessed in real-time the deadly impact of an airborne pandemic. In just over a year, more than 2.6 million people have died from COVID-19.
24 March 2021

COVID-19 diverted lifesaving tuberculosis work. But there is still hope - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund, and Dag Inge Ulstein, Minister of international development in Norway and co-chair of the Facilitation Council for the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator
11 February 2021

Safely Reopening Requires Testing, Tracing and Isolation, Not Just Vaccines

By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund & Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator

The recent surge of positive COVID-19 vaccine developments has sent waves of relief throughout a pandemic-weary world. However, no matter how effective these vaccines are, they will not be enough to end this global pandemic—and for many of the world’...