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25 April 2021In Fighting COVID-19, We Can’t Neglect Malaria
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
World Malaria Day is a reminder that as the world battles with COVID-19, we still haven’t beaten a much older pandemic. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has plagued humanity for millennia and still kills over 400,000 people per year – mainly ... -
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With World Malaria Day on 25 April, Dr. Filler answers questions about the impact of COVID-19 on malaria and how we’re working to unite to fight the two diseases with our partners around the world. -
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. -
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11 February 2021Safely Reopening Requires Testing, Tracing and Isolation, Not Just Vaccines
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund & Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator
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 2020Data saves lives. To end HIV, we must improve key population data collection now.
By Jinkou (Button) Zhao, Senior Specialist, Monitoring & Evaluation
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 2020Put Human Rights at the Centre of our Battle Against COVID-19
By Peter Sands and Antonio Zappulla
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 2020How the lessons the world learned in the fight against HIV can help us defeat COVID-19
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
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.