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21 April 2020
The Contagion of Fear With Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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07 April 2020
The Threat to Africa
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
Covid-19 is like a drama in which each act eclipses the one before. First, it was Wuhan. Then it moved to Europe. Now it’s accelerating in the United States. But the act that could overshadow all is when Covid-19 takes off in Africa. -
29 March 2020
AIDS, TB And Malaria: Coronavirus Threatens The Endgame - By Madhukar Pai, Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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27 March 2020
Re-thinking Global Health Security
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
As the G7 and G20 strive to coordinate the global response to the COVID-19 crisis, policymakers are being bombarded with proposals about creating new funds, new institutions, and new initiatives, all requiring billions of dollars. -
25 March 2020
When Finance Fails: Why Economists Didn’t See a Coronavirus Collapse Coming
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
If being the CEO of a major international bank and now the head of a global health organization has taught me one thing, it’s that there’s a chasm of mutual incomprehension between the worlds of global finance and global health. -
23 March 2020
Fighting Tuberculosis: Lessons for COVID-19
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
As governments around the world struggle to contain spiraling infections and an ever-increasing death toll from COVID-19, it’s worth reflecting on what lessons we can draw from the long and still unfinished fight against tuberculosis – the world’s mo... -
29 November 2019
On World AIDS Day: Step Up the Fight Against HIV
By Peter Sands
This World AIDS Day, there is a new sense of urgency and energy across the partnership that comprises the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Urgency given the need to step up the fight — our current trajectory will not get us to the... -
30 October 2019
Promises Alone Cannot Save Our Lives
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16 October 2019
How We Can Secure the Broadest Access to Quality-Assured and Affordable Medicines to Defeat HIV
By Philippe Francois, Head of Sourcing & Supply Chain
Since its inception in 2002, the Global Fund has saved 32 million lives! This tremendous figure is the result of efforts by a wide array of actors comprising the Global Fund partnership, including implementer governments, multilateral agencies, bilat... -
19 September 2019
Next Stop: Universal Health Coverage for all Africans
By Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, President of the Republic of Mali
One million people worldwide do not have access to basic health care due to a lack of financial resources or proximity of services. Behind this figure, we can only imagine the difficulties faced every day by the most vulnerable people in developing c...