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17 September 2021
COVID-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 2021
Vaccines 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 2021
Results Report 2021: Letter from the Executive Director
By Peter Sands, 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
Whose Pandemic is it Anyway?
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
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. -
07 July 2021
To 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. -
15 June 2021
We Will End AIDS Only If We Reduce Inequality
By Winnie Byanyima and Peter Sands
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. -
08 June 2021
Just like COVID-19, our fight to rid the world of HIV is held back by inequality - by Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund and Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS