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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. -
01 December 2020Without Equity, We Cannot End COVID-19, HIV Or Any Other Pandemic
By Peter Sands and Mark Vermeulen
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 2020COVID-19 must transform the definition of global health security
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
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 2020Why drug-resistant tuberculosis poses a major risk to global health security
By Dr. Eliud Wandwalo, Head of Tuberculosis Department
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...