CIDRAP News: Malaria meetings garner support, shed new light on spread “Two major malaria conferences under way this week — one in London and the other in Senegal — brought new pledges of nearly $4 billion to curb the disease and new research on factors that are driving disease levels,…

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Global Fund News Flash The latest issue of the Global Fund News Flash features an article on the Global Fund joining partners at the Malaria Summit London 2018 in a call to reduce malaria by one half across the Commonwealth of Nations…

Friends of the Global Fight: Key Takeaways from the #TippingPointReport Tweet Chat “As part of the launch of its new report, ‘At the Tipping Point: U.S. Leadership to End AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,’ Friends hosted a tweet chat with global health partners to discuss ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis,…

Washington Post: North Korea has a big tuberculosis problem. It’s about to get worse. Jeremy Youde, student in global health and international relations at the Australian National University “A Bloomberg News report this week warned of the threat of North Korea’s ‘other weapon’ — tuberculosis. In February, the Global Fund…

Friends of the Global Fight: Timeline: Past and Future Milestones in the Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria (1998-2030) “As part of its new report, ‘At the Tipping Point: U.S. Leadership to End AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,’ Friends has created [a] timeline to capture both past milestones in the global…

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Global Fund News Flash The latest issue of the Global Fund News Flash features a paper in which “Ralf Jurgens, senior coordinator for human rights at the Global Fund, and co-authors, describe how the Global Fund is making a greater commitment to…

Friends of the Global Fight: At the Tipping Point: U.S. Leadership to End AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria “…This forward-looking report asks: what is the end goal of America’s considerable investment in tackling the deadliest infectious diseases of our time? … Like the epidemics themselves, American policy has reached a tipping…

The Hill: American leadership against deadly epidemics reaches a decision point Chris Collins, president of Friends of the Global Fight “What is the end goal of America’s considerable investment in tackling the deadliest infectious diseases of our time? Americans should be proud that U.S. leadership against AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and…

Friends of the Global Fight: Defeating Malaria: Innovative Partnerships, Innovative Treatment True Claycombe, senior policy manager at Friends of the Global Fight, and Silvia Ferazzi, advocacy director at Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), discuss the role of product development partnerships (PDPs) in efforts to address malaria. The authors conclude, “Continued…

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 334 of the “Global Fund Observer.” The newsletter includes articles on various topics, including the Global Fund’s suspension of its partnership with Heineken; the Global Fund’s co-financing policy; the passage…