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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
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26 May 2021
“The pandemic hurt everyone”: India’s Oxygen Crisis From the Front Lines
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 ... -
07 May 2021
The millions of lives cost by not fighting COVID-19 together (in Spanish) - with Françoise Vanni, Head of External Relations and Communications at the Global Fund and Sergio Carmona, Acting CEO of FIND
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03 May 2021
Okinawa: 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. -
28 April 2021
We must scale-up the global response to COVID-19. This needs more than vaccines - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund