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22 November 2021
“We must invest in our healers”: Dr. Zolelwa Sifumba is Fighting for Health Workers on the Front Line
Dr. Zolelwa Sifumba is a health worker, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) survivor, Global Fund advocate and global health activist in South Africa, and Community Representative in the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT-) Accelerator. -
14 October 2021
Drug-resistant TB: Business As Usual No Longer An Option
I have spent the last 25 years working to prevent tuberculosis and treat people with the disease. I have seen firsthand the devastating consequences, including from drug resistant TB, which is more deadly and more difficult and expensive to treat. -
04 October 2021
Unloved, But a Life-saver – We Must Value PPE
No item has come to signal the era of COVID-19 like the face-mask. Now a common sight and a necessity for daily life, this simple yet effective device is the unsung hero of the COVID-19 response, playing a crucial role in helping protect health worke... -
17 September 2021
COVID-19 Hit HIV, TB and Malaria Programs Hard, We’re Fighting Back
The impact of COVID-19 on HIV, TB and malaria is like nothing we have seen in the 20 years we have been fighting these diseases. While our journey over the two decades has had its fair share of challenges, we always pushed forward. Until now. -
14 September 2021
Vaccines Alone Won’t Defeat the Variants
Delta is surging through both vaccinated and unvaccinated populations – increasing the risk of new mutations, and subjecting many to Long Covid. The solution must include protection, tests and treatments. -
08 September 2021
Results Report 2021: Letter from the Executive Director
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05 August 2021
Q&A with Dr. Gambo Aliyu, Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) in Nigeria
When COVID-19 struck in Nigeria in 2020, the country went into lockdown. As the virus overwhelmed systems for health, many clinical facilities were swiftly turned into COVID-19 isolation centers, displacing the delivery of other lifesaving health ser... -
07 July 2021
To End AIDS, It’s Going to Take Some Fighting
In 2001, at the age of 22 – when I thought my life had just begun – I was diagnosed with HIV. At that time, the diagnosis felt like receiving a death sentence, and every day, I waited for my hour of death. -
07 July 2021
Whose Pandemic is it Anyway?
The furor about vaccine nationalism and sharing doses of Covid-19 overshadows a fundamental issue: What is an equitable definition of what counts as a pandemic? The use of that word isn't just semantics: it's about who we care lives or dies. -
15 June 2021
We Will End AIDS Only If We Reduce Inequality
As vaccinations against COVID-19 ramp up across Europe and North America, many people are welcoming hugs from loved ones, restaurants and beaches are reopening and a return to a sense of normality in many countries is beckoning.