Stories

  • 17 December 2025
    A Year in Review: 2025
    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...
  • 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.
  • Lucy Muzia began her career as a science teacher until a professor introduced her to entomological surveillance in 2008 – then an undeveloped field in Zambia. Undeterred by the lack of infrastructure and pay, Lucy volunteered to help establish the co...
  • Fanose Hirreno has been a health extension worker in the Koka region of Ethiopia for 18 years. She spends three days a week providing door-to-door care and two days supporting patients at her local community health post. Launched in 2003, Ethiopia’s ...
  • 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...
  • Every year, tens of thousands of young children in Nigeria die from malaria – the country is home to a staggering 39 % of all global malaria deaths among children under 5 years old. To combat this tragic loss of life, the Global Fund works with the g...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...