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24 March 2021
On World TB Day, Crisis and Hope
In 2020, we all witnessed in real-time the deadly impact of an airborne pandemic. In just over a year, more than 2.6 million people have died from COVID-19. -
11 February 2021
Safely Reopening Requires Testing, Tracing and Isolation, Not Just Vaccines
The recent surge of positive COVID-19 vaccine developments has sent waves of relief throughout a pandemic-weary world. However, no matter how effective these vaccines are, they will not be enough to end this global pandemic—and for many of the world’... -
17 December 2020
Data saves lives. To end HIV, we must improve key population data collection now.
Forty years after the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, the world is still struggling to collect quality data on the people who are the most affected by HIV, impeding the progress towards the eradication of the disease. -
10 December 2020
Put Human Rights at the Centre of our Battle Against COVID-19
Throughout history, people have faced pandemics: the bubonic plague, smallpox, influenza, HIV and now COVID-19. Pandemics affect people of every creed, color and class. But they do not affect everyone equally. -
02 December 2020
How the lessons the world learned in the fight against HIV can help us defeat COVID-19
World AIDS Day reminds us that while we battle to contain COVID-19, we still haven’t finished the fight against the last big pandemic to hit humanity. After four decades and the loss of over 32 million lives, the battle against HIV is still unwon. -
01 December 2020
Without Equity, We Cannot End COVID-19, HIV Or Any Other Pandemic
While COVID-19 continues to accelerate around the world, the last few weeks have seen new optimism in the fight against the pandemic. Pfizer and Moderna have shared data showing their vaccines are more than 90% effective. People now dare to dream tha... -
19 November 2020
COVID-19 must transform the definition of global health security
The recent announcements that multiple new coronavirus vaccines are showing strong results provide hope that life will eventually return to normal and the catastrophic death toll will end – good news we all desperately need right now. -
19 November 2020
Why drug-resistant tuberculosis poses a major risk to global health security
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a form of antimicrobial resistance that is difficult and costly to treat. It is caused by TB bacteria that are resistant to at least one of the first-line existing TB medications, resulting in fewer treatment op... -
10 June 2020
In Kenya, A Chance to See Communities Confront COVID-19
It feels like a year ago now. But it was on 19 March, when I left for my hometown of Nairobi from Geneva, where I live and work. I landed in Nairobi on the morning of 20 March, a week after Kenya had confirmed its first case of the coronavirus and a ... -
27 May 2020
COVID-19 Threatens to Derail Fight Against HIV, TB and Malaria
As COVID-19 ravages the world, the fight against HIV, TB and malaria is acutely at risk. That fight is not merely at risk of getting knocked off course – it can be derailed entirely.