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04 December 2025Statement by Peter Sands on the World Malaria Report 2025
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of The Global Fund
The World Malaria Report lays bare two truths: when we invest, we save lives — and when we falter, malaria surges back. This year’s Report, capturing the numbers from 2024, shows a stalling of overall progress and highlights serious concerns, but it ... -
28 November 2025Eswatini: The Small Kingdom Setting A Big Example On HIV Prevention
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of The Global Fund
When I walked into Eswatini’s Central Medical Stores that morning, the first thing I saw were the boxes. They were stacked neatly in tall, orderly columns on pallet racks in the middle of the warehouse — plain cardboard, carefully labelled, indisting... -
The last two decades have seen extraordinary progress in global health: tens of millions of lives saved, sharp reductions in mortality, and dramatic increases in life expectancy in even the poorest countries. Yet the context has changed. Donors are c... -
Young people stand to benefit the most from a world free of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. The World Bank projects that the number of young people globally could increase to nearly 1.3 billion by 2030, up from 1.2 billion in 2015. Yet, despite t... -
When I was four years old, I lost my father to malaria. Since then, I’ve lost my baby niece, I almost lost my mother, and I came close to death myself. All because of malaria. -
10 July 2025How AI Is Accelerating the Fight Against an Ancient Killer
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease – an ancient killer that still claims over a million lives each year, mostly among the world’s poorest and hardest-to-reach. Yet we are on the brink of a new era of progress in the fi...