Opinion
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17 September 2021COVID-19 Hit HIV, TB and Malaria Programs Hard, We’re Fighting Back
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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. -
17 September 2021
COVID-19 Hit HIV, TB and Malaria Programs Hard, But We’re Fighting Back - by Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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14 September 2021Vaccines Alone Won’t Defeat the Variants
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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. -
13 September 2021
HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria: COVID-19 Is Making Us Lose Ground (in French) - by Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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08 September 2021Results Report 2021: Letter from the Executive Director
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
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05 August 2021Q&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 2021To End AIDS, It’s Going to Take Some Fighting
By Dr Vuyiseka Dubula, Director, Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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. -
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. -
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. -
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It was the suddenness and the intensity of the second COVID-19 wave that took everyone in India by surprise. “None of us were prepared for this speed of development, this kind of rapidity with which it developed,” Dr. Bornali Datta explains over the ... -
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03 May 2021Okinawa: Lighting a Flame for the Fight Against Infectious Diseases
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
In Okinawa, Japan, on Saturday a team of global health advocates and leaders from “The Global Fund ― From Okinawa” team carried the Olympic torch aloft, lighting the way for a world free from the burden of HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and COVID-19. -
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25 April 2021In Fighting COVID-19, We Can’t Neglect Malaria
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
World Malaria Day is a reminder that as the world battles with COVID-19, we still haven’t beaten a much older pandemic. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has plagued humanity for millennia and still kills over 400,000 people per year – mainly ... -
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With World Malaria Day on 25 April, Dr. Filler answers questions about the impact of COVID-19 on malaria and how we’re working to unite to fight the two diseases with our partners around the world. -
In 2020, we all witnessed in real-time the deadly impact of an airborne pandemic. In just over a year, more than 2.6 million people have died from COVID-19. -
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11 February 2021Safely Reopening Requires Testing, Tracing and Isolation, Not Just Vaccines
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund & Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator
The recent surge of positive COVID-19 vaccine developments has sent waves of relief throughout a pandemic-weary world. However, no matter how effective these vaccines are, they will not be enough to end this global pandemic—and for many of the world’...