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Every lifesaving test, treatment or medical procedure leaves something behind: used bandages, syringes, tests, protective equipment – but what comes next? Handling medical waste is one of the least visible, yet most critical, parts of protecting heal...
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Just before dawn, students stream through the bright pink gates of St. Anne’s Ahero Comprehensive School in Kisumu County in western Kenya. It’s the start of a school day – and the mosquitoes are hungry. Clouds of them descend from the dense canopy o...
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At 24, Sandra is building her future. She owns two small beauty salons in and around Mbabane, Eswatini, and is saving up to pursue a degree in computer science. Taking control of her health is part of her plan, in a country where 1 in every 9 young w...
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For more than two decades, Dr. Aster Shweaamare has been one of the driving forces behind Ethiopia’s fight against HIV. At the Zewditu Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa, one of Ethiopia’s largest HIV treatment centers, she leads the disease prevention...
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When Fatoumata Keita was a young girl, an accident changed the course of her life. After her family sought treatment from a traditional healer, the care she received left her with a permanent disability in her left arm. The experience stayed with her...
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At Sulianti Saroso Infectious Disease Hospital in Jakarta, laboratory teams routinely process samples from patients who could be ill with an infectious disease. Working safely with these biological samples requires specialized equipment and strict pr...
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New technologies — from rapid molecular diagnostics and AI-enabled X-ray detection, to shorter, all-oral treatment regimens — are transforming what’s possible in the fight against, tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease claiming ...
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Delivering lifesaving health services in Mali requires resilience and determination. Even amid security challenges, extreme weather and inequality, women continue to demand – and deliver – the care that keeps them, their families and their communitie...
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Ukraine’s health systems have been devastated by the war – thousands of hospitals and clinics have been damaged or destroyed, supply chains have been decimated and millions of people have been at risk of being cut off from lifesaving HIV, tuberculosi...
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On his coffee farm in rural East Java, Indonesia, Pak Jun developed a persistent cough. He was nauseous, dizzy and unable to eat. When his condition failed to improve, Pak Jun’s family took him to the local puskesmas, or health center, for a check-up...
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This year, the Global Fund partnership continued to deliver on its promise to end the world’s deadliest diseases. We look back at 2024 with a collection of powerful people and stories about harnessing the power of new tools, innovation and building s...
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Founded in 1996, CESAC was the very first HIV clinic in Mali — established by a group of young doctors with few resources, but an unshakable commitment to caring for people living with HIV and AIDS. One of those doctors is Dr. Bintou Dembele.
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For 15 years, François Mafuku has been an HIV nurse at the Pediatric Foundation of Kimbondo Hospital on the outskirts of Kinshasa. He says that despite the undeniable progress made in the fight against HIV and AIDS, the disease continues to take a he...
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As a community health mobilizer, Rowida played a vital role in a recent campaign to distribute millions of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect communities from malaria in Sudan. Rowida spoke to families in the town of Damazine, Blue Nile Sta...
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Twenty years ago, Ethiopia’s health system was under-resourced and under pressure, facing critical workforce and infrastructure gaps. The country grappled with a heavy burden of infectious diseases – including HIV, TB and malaria – and elevated mater...
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Indonesia has the second-highest TB burden in the world – about 1 million people in the country fall ill with the disease every year. Drug-resistant TB, a deadly strain of the disease that is difficult to diagnose and does not respond to first-line t...
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Communities across West Africa continue to face old and new infectious disease threats, including waterborne diseases like cholera and typhoid, viral hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola, Lassa fever and yellow fever, and new emerging threats like mpox. The...
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Anthony Estomata plays an important role in the fight against TB in the Philippines. As a Specimen Transport Rider (STRider), Anthony uses his motorcycle to transport sputum specimens from clinics to laboratories equipped with GeneXpert diagnostic ma...
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In Namibia, young women remain disproportionately affected by HIV, facing higher risks due to social and economic vulnerabilities, limited access to services and gender-based violence. The Global Fund and partners support a comprehensive, youth-focus...
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Thiraphot Singtohin leads the HIV unit at the Office of Disease Prevention and Control in Khon Kaen, Thailand. His team supports hospitals in four Thai provinces to conduct HIV and TB testing – critical work that involves handling transmissible patho...