Opinion

  • 10 July 2025
    How AI Is Accelerating the Fight Against an Ancient Killer
    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...
  • 09 July 2025
    The First Generation Without AIDS Is Within Reach If We Refuse to Settle
    We stand at the edge of an extraordinary possibility: to build the first generation without AIDS. Not a metaphorical generation — but real children, born free of HIV, growing up with the agency to protect themselves, and supported by health systems s...
  • 19 June 2025
    Patterns of Past, Present, Promise: Reflections of Strength

    By Ivan Molina Aranibar

    I was 18 when I was diagnosed with HIV. The months leading up to my diagnosis were filled with fear and confusion. I wanted to donate blood, to do something good – but what followed was a series of healthcare missteps and poor communication. Eventual...
  • 17 June 2025
    Patterns of Past, Present, Promise: A Life Reborn

    By Ani Herna Sari

    I was pregnant with my first child when I was diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). I’d already suffered years of misdiagnosis. In an instant, all the joy I felt as an expectant mother turned to fear and anxiety.
  • 23 April 2025
    Ending Malaria Makes Everyone Healthier, Safer and More Prosperous

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director

    A few months ago, alarm bells rang across global health networks as a mysterious disease emerged in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The outbreak seemed to defy easy explanation — it was circulating in the remote parts of th...
  • 24 March 2025
    Long Seen as the “Pandemic of the Poor”, TB is a Threat to us All

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director

    Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) has regained its position as the number 1 infectious disease killer worldwide, causing 1.25 million deaths in 2023. As a respiratory infection prone to drug resistance, TB poses a looming threa...
  • 11 December 2024
    Investing in Malaria: Saving Millions of Lives and Boosting the Global Economy
    Many of the countries most affected by malaria are also on the front lines of climate change. In sub-Saharan Africa, where a child dies of malaria every minute, shifting weather patterns – from intense rainfall to extreme heatwaves and prolonged drou...
  • 29 November 2024
    A Moment of Reckoning in the Fight Against HIV

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director

    Twenty years ago, beating back HIV seemed an almost impossible dream. The disease was ravaging communities across the world, taking a huge toll on lives and societies. Since then, we have come an extraordinarily long way and seen great leaps in preve...
  • 14 November 2024
    Why Health Should Be at the Heart of the Climate Agenda at COP29

    By Peter Sands, Executive Director

    When I visited Dhaka in July this year, the city was wrapped in the thick humidity and heat of the monsoon season. The air felt heavy and warm as I walked with a community health worker through the winding, makeshift neighborhoods of one of the huge ...
  • 13 November 2024
    From Berlin to Dakar: Making Young People’s Voices Resonate at the Highest Levels of the Global Health Ecosystem

    By Farida Tiemtore, founder of Héroines du Faso, Voix EssentiELLES of Burkina Faso and member of the Global Fund Youth Council

    Youth were at the forefront of a series of dynamic and inspiring global health events that took place in October 2024. As a member of Burkina Faso’s Voix EssentiELLES and the Global Fund’s Youth Council, I had the opportunity to attend the 2024 World...