2023

  • 24 March 2023
    Fighting Tuberculosis Will Protect Us From the Next Global Health Threat

    By Eliud Wandwalo, Head of Tuberculosis, the Global Fund

    One of the best ways to prepare for future pandemics is to turbocharge the fight against tuberculosis and stop considering it the “pandemic of the poor”, writes Dr. Eliud Wandwalo, head of TB at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...
  • Yulia is a tuberculosis (TB) outreach worker in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She works with 100% Life, the largest patient civil society organization in the country, which is also a Global Fund partner. In her role, she provides community-based health outreach ...
  • 20 March 2023
    Tuberculosis: The Unseen Pandemic

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund

    TB will likely kill more people in low- and middle- income countries in 2023 than COVID-19. Yet it attracts a tiny fraction of the political attention and financial resources we’ve deployed against the new virus.
  • I had been working as a sex worker for almost ten years when, in 2009, a client encouraged me to organize sex workers in our town and fight for our rights. “Together you have power,” he assured me. He made this suggestion after I told him how utterly...