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This year the Global Fund continued to deliver lifesaving services for people affected by HIV, TB and malaria – thanks to the unwavering commitment of communities, governments and partners. Our partnership came together to confront colliding crises i...
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For nearly 30 years Ion Popescu was a heavy drug user, and the scars of his decades-long addiction remain very visible today. After being hit by a train in Moscow while using drugs, Ion now walks with a limp and the help of a crutch. A deep scar runs...
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Ly Rithy is at home in the cheerful company of her granddaughters, 7-year-old Tiya and 12-year-old Srey Pin. Nestled away from the high-energy hum of the main avenues of the Toul Sangke neighborhood in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Rithy’s home is found at t...
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Health researcher Dr. Diocreciano Matias Bero leads the Wastewater Environmental Monitoring Program at Mozambique’s National Institute of Health. He recognizes that most people are turned off by what goes down the toilet – but studying that waste is ...
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Primary school French teacher Aloys Butoyi has been passionate about educating children since he became a teacher over 20 years ago. Mr. Butoyi teaches at the Excel School in Musanze, Rwanda. Like most teachers, he remembers the COVID-19 pandemic as ...
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world, killing over 1.5 million people every year. Even more devastating is that TB is preventable, treatable and curable – but too often people most at risk can’t access the t...
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When the floodwaters started rushing through Celina Tembe’s home, a neighbor helped Celina and her three children to safety. “In the past, we knew that during the winter there would be no rain,” says Celina. “But nowadays it has become… normal.” Mos...
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Community health worker Marc Ilboudo often provides care to the very youngest children in his village. Most days, he conducts at-home visits for families living in Pousghin, approximately 30 kilometers northeast of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital...
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Innocent was only 6 years old when his father died from an AIDS-related illness. Soon after the little boy began feeling sick himself. After visiting multiple health centers, Innocent eventually ended up at the Baylor Foundation in Malawi’s capital c...
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When Farida Tiemtoré was a 23-year-old student she had big dreams. “I said to myself, ‘Why not create something on the internet to enable people to get the right information?’ Straightaway, the blog let me connect with girls and with female role mode...
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Across Viet Nam, health workers at every level of care – from national laboratories to village health centers – are overcoming obstacles to beat back HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
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Nothing could stop the flood waters. Fazila, a 25-year-old midwife, received a red alert to evacuate her village in Pakistan’s Sindh province.
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Strong health systems are vital to ending AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, responding to emergencies that fuel disease and preparing for future health threats.
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Ida Neni Haryanti remembers “falling in love with microscopes” when she first started working in a laboratory.
She also recalls being the first person in Indonesia’s Riau Islands province to collect a COVID-19 specimen.
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Salisu and his wife Basira brought their 2-year-old son Maila to the local health center in Sabon-Gari in Kano State, Nigeria, as soon as he showed signs of fever. He started having convulsions and tested positive for malaria.
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In Rusesa, a village in Tanzania’s Kigoma region, a group of people – mostly women and children – gather to plan how to confront the neighborhood’s deadliest creature: the mosquito.