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14 November 2024Why Health Should Be at the Heart of the Climate Agenda at COP29
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
When I visited Dhaka in July this year, the city was wrapped in the thick humidity and heat of the monsoon season. The air felt heavy and warm as I walked with a community health worker through the winding, makeshift neighborhoods of one of the huge ... -
13 November 2024From Berlin to Dakar: Making Young People’s Voices Resonate at the Highest Levels of the Global Health Ecosystem
By Farida Tiemtore, founder of Héroines du Faso, Voix EssentiELLES of Burkina Faso and member of the Global Fund Youth Council
Youth were at the forefront of a series of dynamic and inspiring global health events that took place in October 2024. As a member of Burkina Faso’s Voix EssentiELLES and the Global Fund’s Youth Council, I had the opportunity to attend the 2024 World... -
29 October 2024
If We Act Decisively, We Can End TB
The big message to take from this year’s Global Tuberculosis Report is that if we act decisively, we can end tuberculosis (TB). We have momentum, we have tools, and we have leadership, but we do need more money – and we also need to dismantle the hum... -
19 September 2024UNGA: Progress in Global Health Shows the Path to a Safer, More Secure World
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
As the world gathers for the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, the focus on the interconnected crises the world faces underscores a critical truth: Today’s challenges are inextricably linked to global health. Many of the General ... -
27 June 2024We Are Still Here
By Richard Lusimbo, Founder and Director General of the Uganda Key Populations Consortium
To mark Pride month, Richard Lusimbo of the Uganda Key Populations Consortium speaks out about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act and bringing communities together to fight back. -
07 June 2024Walking in Other People’s Shoes
Community health workers are often the best – and only – resource for people living in rural and remote areas. Support for community health workers contributes to strong, resilient health systems that can reach more people with lifesaving health care... -
27 May 2024The Path to Pandemic Preparedness Is Hidden in Plain Sight
By Shunsuke Mabuchi, Head of Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health and Pandemic Preparedness at the Global Fund
“Pandemic preparedness and response” wasn’t part of my job when I started working at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in 2022. I was hired to lead the organization’s work on health systems strengthening in the 120 countries whe... -
25 April 2024The Women Leading the Charge Against Malaria in Cameroon
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
We have new tools, but it is the health workers on the frontline who make the difference against malaria. -
A rapidly changing global health landscape—marked by climate change, conflict, drug and insecticide resistance—threatens to reverse progress against the mosquito-borne disease malaria. One of the oldest and deadliest infections, malaria claimed 608,0...
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25 April 2024To End Malaria, We Must Advance Health Equity
By Scott Filler, Head of Malaria at the Global Fund
The fight against malaria is at a pivotal point. In recent years, the progress we have made against this disease has ground to a halt, particularly in countries that carry a high burden of the disease.