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...
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.
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 ...
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. Isaac Ssewanyana was a teenager when the full force of Uganda’s HIV epidemic struck home. A cousin – also a close friend – contracted HIV. “I wanted to be a doctor so I could be part of the solution,” he says. He was drawn to the laboratory, wher...
Bangladesh has the sixth-highest TB burden in the world – but the country’s response has been consistent and robust. Every year, more than 300,000 people with TB are identified and connected to treatment. Deaths attributed to TB have fallen by 36% si...
Conflict in Sudan has resulted in millions of people being displaced from their homes. An estimated 80% of hospitals in conflict-affected areas in the country are unable to treat patients and medical supplies are depleted nationwide. Lack of access t...
Like in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, women in Namibia are disproportionately impacted by HIV. But a focused, ongoing campaign has put the country on the forefront of fighting the disease – particularly for mothers and children.