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09 November 2020
Living through lockdown
Using social media to help marginalized groups get HIV services during COVID-19 -
30 September 2020
COVID-19 Rapid Tests: A Milestone in Fight Against the Pandemic
Yesterday evening, I joined global health partners from the COVID-19 ACT-Accelerator to announce a ground-breaking agreement that will provide access to 120 million rapid tests for COVID-19 to low-and middle-income countries. -
21 September 2020
COVID-19 is a Turning Point for Infectious Diseases
We ended 2019 with a palpable sense of excitement and expectation. More people were receiving lifesaving treatment for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria than ever before. And a record-breaking fundraising conference meant we had the resources to get the... -
14 September 2020
On the Front Lines: Responding to COVID-19
With personal protective equipment, radio broadcasts and innovative mosquito net campaigns, countries are fighting COVID-19, shoring up health systems, and mitigating the impacts on lifesaving HIV, TB and malaria programs. The Global Fund is supporti... -
14 September 2020
Myanmar Makes Major Progress Fighting Malaria
Ten years ago, more than 3,800 people died from malaria in Myanmar every year. Today, that number has dropped to approximately 170. -
14 September 2020
Eswatini Meets Global 95-95-95 HIV Target
Eswatini, a tiny country of just over a million people in southern Africa, has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world: 27% of adults live with the disease. -
21 August 2020
An Urgent Plea from a South African Health Worker Fighting COVID-19 and TB
In Cape Town, South Africa, Nombasa Krune-Dumile, a drug-resistant tuberculosis counselor who has dedicated her life to supporting tuberculosis (TB) patients, says COVID-19 has devastated health systems and upended normal operations of her work. -
29 July 2020
Guardians of a Continent
Every time Evaline Owuor says goodbye to her children and goes to work, she takes a calculated risk. As a community health worker in Kenya’s Homa Bay County, she has helped her community dramatically reduce the number of people who die from malaria. ... -
10 July 2020
Disruptions in HIV, TB and Malaria Programs due to COVID-19
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09 July 2020
Fighting HIV in India during COVID-19
Nisha Shaik fills her bag with a supply of medicines, dons her light-blue face mask and sets off into the winding alleyways of a Mumbai slum. COVID-19 cases are soaring in India, and the country is under a strict lockdown. But despite the pandemic, N...