2023

  • 19 September 2023
    For the Fight Against HIV, TB and Malaria, a Moment of Reckoning

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund

    The heads of state and government from nearly 200 countries gathering this week in New York for the United Nations General Assembly must confront the stark reality that the Sustainable Development Goals are in dire jeopardy. This year marks the midpo...
  • How the global fight against HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria is an opportunity for India’s pharmaceutical industry and other private-sector companies.
  • 14 July 2023
    Japan’s Fight Against TB Can Be a Roadmap for Pandemic Preparedness

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund

    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

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund

    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

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund

    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

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund

    “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...