2023

  • 10 May 2023
    The Challenge of Malaria

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund

    In February 2020, just before COVID-19 made such trips impossible, I visited a village in the Kongo Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and talked to a community health worker, called François Mvueki. Looking at his daily logbook...
  • 05 May 2023
    Felled by a Warming World: Will Malaria Be the Next Pandemic?

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund

    The next global health crisis might not be another pandemic caused by a novel respiratory infection. Instead, we could see climate change dramatically increasing the threat from an existing infectious disease–for example, malaria, a disease that kill...
  • 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...
  • 23 March 2023
    “But I Can’t Just Give Up.” In the Shadow of War, Yulia Continues to Support People with TB in Ukraine

    By Yulia Malyk

    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.
  • 01 March 2023
    In Côte d’Ivoire, Sex Workers Team Up With Police to Fight Stigma and HIV

    By Deborah Guehi

    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...