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29 October 2024
If We Act Decisively, We Can End TB
The big message to take from this year’s Global Tuberculosis Report is that if we act decisively, we can end tuberculosis (TB). We have momentum, we have tools, and we have leadership, but we do need more money – and we also need to dismantle the hum... -
19 September 2024
UNGA: Progress in Global Health Shows the Path to a Safer, More Secure World
As the world gathers for the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, the focus on the interconnected crises the world faces underscores a critical truth: Today’s challenges are inextricably linked to global health. Many of the General ... -
27 June 2024
We Are Still Here
By Richard Lusimbo, Founder and Director General of the Uganda Key Populations Consortium
To mark Pride month, Richard Lusimbo of the Uganda Key Populations Consortium speaks out about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act and bringing communities together to fight back. -
07 June 2024
Walking in Other People’s Shoes
Community health workers are often the best – and only – resource for people living in rural and remote areas. Support for community health workers contributes to strong, resilient health systems that can reach more people with lifesaving health care... -
27 May 2024
The Path to Pandemic Preparedness Is Hidden in Plain Sight
By Shunsuke Mabuchi, Head of Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health and Pandemic Preparedness at the Global Fund
“Pandemic preparedness and response” wasn’t part of my job when I started working at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in 2022. I was hired to lead the organization’s work on health systems strengthening in the 120 countries whe... -
25 April 2024
To End Malaria, We Must Advance Health Equity
By Scott Filler, Head of Malaria at the Global Fund
The fight against malaria is at a pivotal point. In recent years, the progress we have made against this disease has ground to a halt, particularly in countries that carry a high burden of the disease. -
25 April 2024
The Women Leading the Charge Against Malaria in Cameroon
By Peter Sands, Executive Director
We have new tools, but it is the health workers on the frontline who make the difference against malaria. -
25 April 2024
How Innovative Partnerships Accelerated Access to New Malaria Tools
A rapidly changing global health landscape—marked by climate change, conflict, drug and insecticide resistance—threatens to reverse progress against the mosquito-borne disease malaria. One of the oldest and deadliest infections, malaria claimed 608,0... -
18 April 2024
To End AIDS, We Must Reclaim Our Unyielding Pursuit of Equity
By Adv. Bience Gawanas, Vice-Chair of the Global Fund Board
As HIV practitioners gather this week in Yaoundé for AFRAVIH, the largest international Francophone conference on HIV/AIDS, and a few months before the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich, the Vice-Chair of the Global Fund Board urges renewe... -
16 April 2024
Empower African Youth So They Can Put an End to AIDS
By Patrick Fouda, Co-founder and Executive Director of the West and Central Africa Network of Positive Adolescents and Youth (RAJ+ AOC)
When AIDS swept across Africa at the end of the last century, many of our governments were denying or downplaying the problem and it was the young people who mobilized. Large numbers of them were affected so they gave their energy, and even their liv...