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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
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25 April 2021
In 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 ... -
23 April 2021
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, testing is as vital as ever - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund and Emma Hannay, Chief Access Officer at FIND
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22 April 2021
Malaria and COVID-19: Q&A with Dr. Scott Filler
By Scott Filler, Head of Malaria
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. -
24 March 2021
On World TB Day, Crisis and Hope
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
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. -
24 March 2021
COVID-19 diverted lifesaving tuberculosis work. But there is still hope - By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund, and Dag Inge Ulstein, Minister of international development in Norway and co-chair of the Facilitation Council for the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator
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11 February 2021
Safely 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’...