Opinion

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 28 August 2019
    TICAD is a Great Path to Sustainable Global Prosperity

    By Donald Kaberuka, Chair of the Global Fund Board

    For the seventh time in the last 25 years, African and Japanese leaders will meet again this month to chart the way forward for a future of shared prosperity for Africa, Japan and the world. Through Tokyo International Conference on African Developme...
  • Investing in health is one of the best ways to build a better future. Healthy societies are more stable and equal; and have stronger and more productive economies
  • What is the global health community missing in its effort to support young women and girls to end HIV? At the Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, we sat down with HER Voice ambassadors to explore answers to that question.