Feature Stories

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    Displaced: In Search of Peace and Health
    19 June 2018
    When people flee their homes and communities because of conflict, poverty or persecution, they also leave behind family doctors and village clinics. The Global Fund partnership works across the world to address the health needs of refugees, wherever ...
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    Lifeline
    14 May 2018
    When tuberculosis strikes, it’s the beginning of a long journey for the patient. Standard “drug-susceptible” TB requires taking four antimicrobial drugs every day for at least six months.
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    Facing the World's Most Deadly Infectious Disease
    22 March 2018
    Curable, but contagious. Preventable, but potentially fatal. 4,600 deaths every day. This is reality of tuberculosis.
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    2018: Year for Action Against TB
    22 March 2018
    Despite being preventable and treatable, tuberculosis has devastating health, social and economic consequences. TB kills more people than any other infectious disease. The emergence of multidrug-resistant TB represents a threat to global health secur...
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    2017: A Year of Impact
    21 December 2017
    As we turn the page on 2017 and welcome 2018, we look back on some of the stories we’ve shared over the year. This brief review can hardly summarize all that’s happened in the fight to end the epidemics of HIV, TB and malaria. Instead, it grounds us ...
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    Breaking the Chains of HIV
    01 December 2017
    “Disclosing my status to my family is unthinkable!” is a common interjection at Aboya, a women’s center in Senegal. In many countries across West Africa, the perception of women living with HIV is still tainted with prostitution, promiscuity and a lo...