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21 September 2023Stopping Malaria From Killing Children is a Matter of Urgency
By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund
I was in Kano, an ancient city in the north of Nigeria recently, visiting health facilities with Nigeria’s impressive new health minister professor Muhammad Ali Pate. This week I’ll be in New York, along with the leaders of nearly 200 countries and m... -
19 September 2023For the Fight Against HIV, TB and Malaria, a Moment of Reckoning
By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund
The heads of state and government from nearly 200 countries gathering this week in New York for the United Nations General Assembly must confront the stark reality that the Sustainable Development Goals are in dire jeopardy. This year marks the midpo... -
29 August 2023India and the Global Fund: A strategic partnership with a national, regional, and global future
By Lady Roslyn Morauta, Chair of the Board
How the global fight against HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria is an opportunity for India’s pharmaceutical industry and other private-sector companies. -
14 July 2023Japan’s Fight Against TB Can Be a Roadmap for Pandemic Preparedness
By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund
In March this year, I visited Japan for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Although I have been to the country several times before, every time I walk Tokyo’s vibrant streets I am still struck by the sheer volume of people who live, work and... -
29 June 2023Pop-Up Booths to the Rescue in the Fight Against TB in Kenya
By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund
In August 2022 Josphat Muoki, a father of four from Nairobi, Kenya, discovered he had TB when he stopped at a pop-up screening station on a busy pedestrian bridge over Nairobi Central Railway Station. The bridge links the city and the industrial zone... -
16 June 2023It’s Time to Overcome Gender Inequality in the Fight Against HIV
By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund
Last year I met a woman called Shani Ally in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Shani leads a full life as a mother, wife and small-business owner. She has also been on HIV treatment for more than 20 years. That treatment has kept her alive and prevented the t... -
25 May 2023One Mozambican Woman’s Fight Against Malaria – “the Devil” That Took Her Husband’s Life
By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund
“Malaria is the devil that came to my house,” Celina Tembe says softly, her hand touching the head of her 3-year-old daughter, Manuela Manuel. In August last year, her 35-year-old husband, Manuel Maxaieie, came home late from work as a machine operat... -
In February 2020, just before COVID-19 made such trips impossible, I visited a village in the Kongo Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and talked to a community health worker, called François Mvueki. Looking at his daily logbook... -
05 May 2023Felled by a Warming World: Will Malaria Be the Next Pandemic?
By Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund
The next global health crisis might not be another pandemic caused by a novel respiratory infection. Instead, we could see climate change dramatically increasing the threat from an existing infectious disease–for example, malaria, a disease that kill... -
24 March 2023Fighting Tuberculosis Will Protect Us From the Next Global Health Threat
By Eliud Wandwalo, Head of Tuberculosis, the Global Fund
One of the best ways to prepare for future pandemics is to turbocharge the fight against tuberculosis and stop considering it the “pandemic of the poor”, writes Dr. Eliud Wandwalo, head of TB at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...