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24 March 2022
The Pivotal Role the Private Sector Can Play in Fight Against TB
By Eliud Wandwalo, Head of Tuberculosis, the Global Fund
The fight against TB has been a long and arduous one. In the 20 years that the Global Fund has been operating, the TB burden has been declining steadily, but the threat of multidrug-resistant TB looms large, and in 2020, the arrival of COVID-19 set u... -
31 January 2022
Fighting AIDS and COVID-19 Depend on a Firm Foundation
By Angeli Achrekar, acting U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy and Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
Twenty years ago, the world faced a devastating pandemic that was spreading rapidly around the world. Then, 5 million people were being infected with HIV and 3 million were dying from AIDS each year. -
13 January 2022
Data Agility: A Fashionable Term, or a Game Changer for Global Health?
By Jinkou (Button) Zhao, Senior Specialist, Monitoring & Evaluation
In the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it have caused a massive disruption of essential health services, especially those supporting prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. Despite global effo... -
11 January 2022
The Global Fund’s Peter Sands on Fighting Multiple Pandemics at the Same Time - with Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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10 December 2021
Together, We Can Beat Infectious Diseases For Good - by Peter Sands, Lord Fowler, Catherine West MP and Virendra Sharma MP
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03 December 2021
Pandemic Lessons - with Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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01 December 2021
The Next Chapter of Our Fight Against HIV
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
Pandemics exacerbate and thrive on inequity. They find the fissures in our societies and deepen them. As a result, the poorest and most marginalized always suffer the most. -
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
By Dr. Mohammed Yassin, Global Fund Senior Tuberculosis Advisor
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
By Jeremy Farrar and Peter Sands
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...