Stories
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18 January 2024Júlia Carries a Mobile App in Her Pocket to Protect Her Community From Deadly Disease
Júlia Lúis is an agente polivalentes elementare, or community health worker, in Upala-a village in Boane District, Mozambique. She visits families in her community every day, listening to and learning about their healthcare needs, conducting clinical... -
19 December 2023A Year in Review: 2023
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... -
08 December 2023In Moldova, Prison-based Harm Reduction Programs Prevent HIV and Protect Human Rights
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... -
28 November 2023Meet Rithy: Grandmother and Outreach Worker at the Heart of Cambodia’s HIV Response
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... -
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 ... -
19 September 2023Rwanda’s Robust Digital Health Systems Vital in Fight Against COVID-19
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 ... -
11 September 2023Tools to Turbocharge the Fight Against Tuberculosis
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... -
31 August 2023Building Back After Historic Storm
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... -
15 August 2023In Burkina Faso, a Mobile App Replaces Pen and Paper Records to Help Transform Community Health
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... -
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... -
18 July 2023Through Voix EssentiELLES, Farida Fights for the Rights of Women and Girls in Burkina Faso
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... -
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. -
17 April 2023For Fazila and Millions of Others in Pakistan, Climate Change Brings Extreme Floods and Malaria
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. -
23 March 2023“But I Can’t Just Give Up.” In the Shadow of War, Yulia Continues to Support People with TB in Ukraine
By Yulia Malyk
Yulia is a tuberculosis (TB) outreach worker in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She works with 100% Life, the largest patient civil society organization in the country, which is also a Global Fund partner. In her role, she provides community-based health outreach ... -
Strong health systems are vital to ending AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, responding to emergencies that fuel disease and preparing for future health threats. -
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. -
06 February 2023Meet the People Behind the World’s Largest Mosquito Net Campaign
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. -
20 January 2023Tanzania’s First Line of Defense Against Pandemics: Neema Vulugu
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. -
19 December 2022A Year in Review: 2022
This year the world came together to Fight for What Counts – raising a record US$15.7 billion for the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment. The Fight for What Counts campaign launched in February and culminated at the Seventh Replenishment Pledging... -
24 November 2022Emergency HIV Prevention for People Displaced in Ukraine
Vadym is one of an estimated 14 million people who have had to flee their homes in search of safety due to the war in Ukraine. Now in the city of Lviv in the west of the country, safety and stability are still out of reach.