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07 March 2023
These Women Are Fighting Disease and Preparing for Future Health Threats
Strong health systems are vital to ending AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, responding to emergencies that fuel disease and preparing for future health threats. -
27 February 2023
Genome Lab Technology Transforms Indonesia’s Response to 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 2023
Meet 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 2023
Tanzania’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 2022
A 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 2022
Emergency 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. -
16 November 2022
Krystal’s Fight: Surviving Malaria as a Child to Combat the Disease Every Day as a Scientist
As a young girl, Krystal Birungi vividly remembers her mother staying up all night with her 5-year-old brother, who was convulsing with fever from malaria. -
28 October 2022
Mei’s Fight: Hard Work and Hope to End TB for Good
When Meirinda (Mei) Sebayang was diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in 2006, she spent five months in near-complete isolation, on the second floor of her family home in Bandung, Indonesia. Treating multidrug-resistant TB is brutal. -
14 October 2022
Yulia’s Story: Taking on Deadly Risks to Deliver TB Care in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Despite living under constant shelling and bombardments over the last seven months, Yulia Malyk has continued working as a social worker in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city. “We are constantly on guard here,” she says. “When I step outside I i... -
30 August 2022
Suzy’s Fight: Eliminating Malaria Despite COVID-19 and Deadly Storms
A large blue and white sign posted on the front of Suzy Haylock’s house says “Solicite aqui el examen de malaria y reciba tratamiento gratis” or “Request your Malaria Test Here and Get Treatment for Free”. Suzy says she has seen thousands of patients...