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...
Bell is a paralegal, peer educator and sex worker in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Too often, sex workers face stigma, discrimination and criminalization that prevents them from accessing HIV prevention, testing and care. Sex workers are four...
Dr. Rosette is the head physician at Centre Convivial, a drop-in centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital city, Kinshasa. The centre is a safe space for people who are disproportionately affected by HIV, but stigma and discrimination ...
Lazarus Fillemon’s phone pings constantly. Where are you? When are you coming? I have a question. I have a story. Lazarus, 30, is a youth ambassador for i-BreakFree, a community engagement program run by Global Fund partner One Economy Foundation in ...
Catherine Nyiva’s first pregnancy was difficult. She didn’t know what to expect. “I was very scared,” she says. “At the clinic, we did not have time to talk to nurses one on one, to express our fears, to ask questions.” Eventually, Catherine delivere...
For years, Dr. Bashar Hashim Abbas, manager of the National Tuberculosis Program in Mosul, Iraq, worked from unair-conditioned trailers, under bombardment and without adequate supplies and equipment to protect him from infection.