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12 August 2022Together, Japan and Africa Can Continue to Save Lives and Spur Economic Growth
By Samia Suluhu Hassan, President, United Republic of Tanzania
As African and Japanese leaders prepare to gather for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Tunisia this month, the world faces numerous interwoven challenges. Conflicts in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Central African Republi... -
22 June 2022Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Here’s How I Survived Malaria
By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, Nobel Peace Laureate and Co-chair of the End Malaria Council
It’s been decades since I fell ill from malaria as a young girl, but I remember the feeling like it was yesterday. My body was weak and I couldn’t eat, sleep or go to school. -
20 June 2022Former PMs Urge Government to Increase Spending on Infectious Diseases After COVID-19 Setbacks
By Samuel Lovett, The Independent
Two former British prime ministers have urged the government to increase spending on tackling AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, after the pandemic reversed recent gains that have been made in eradicating the three diseases. -
20 June 2022President Kenyatta: We Need Vaccines and Investment to Tip the Scales Against Malaria
By Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya and Chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance
Commonwealth leaders meet in the Rwandan capital Kigali this week. They have an opportunity to accelerate the fight against infectious diseases, including malaria, while also building resilient health systems that can protect the world from the next ... -
24 March 2022The 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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