NK News: North Korea could face major tuberculosis medication shortage, NGO warns “North Korea could face a shortage of medication needed to treat drug-susceptible tuberculosis (TB) medication, the Eugene Bell Foundation NGO warned on Thursday, urging South Koreans to play a more active role in providing humanitarian aid to the…

Medium: “I was very depressed,” said Tanwa. “I was in denial for a very long time.” David Bryden, TB advocacy officer at RESULTS “…Isn’t it time we recognize the impact of tuberculosis on mental health? The world is facing an epidemic of TB-associated depression. … Yet, while the mental health…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Uganda denies plans to impose death penalty for gay sex amid global concern “Uganda will not impose the death penalty for gay sex, a presidential spokesman said on Monday, after major aid donors said they were monitoring a plan by the African nation to reintroduce a bill…

Devex: Opinion: The Global Fund needs to broaden its mandate Samy Ahmar, head of health programs at Save the Children U.K. “Reducing the global burden of three of the top infectious killers … is arguably one of the greatest ever achievements of the international community. The Global Fund has been…

Devex: Global Fund claims last-minute victory on $14B replenishment target “The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said it secured its $14 billion funding target at its replenishment conference Thursday, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the French government upping their earlier pledges to get donors…

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has published Issue 365 of the ‘Global Fund Observer.’ The newsletter features pieces about the Global Fund’s sixth replenishment conference, as well as articles about the fund’s resumption of funding to the…

Global Fund: US$14 Billion to Step Up the Fight Against the Epidemics “In an unprecedented show of global solidarity, donors at the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment Conference pledged US$14.02 billion for the next three years — the largest amount ever raised for a multilateral health organization, and the largest amount…

Associated Press: Global Fund seeks $14 billion to fight aids, TB, malaria “Heads of states, CEOs, and global health leaders gathered Thursday in France to try to raise at least $14 billion to finance the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria over the next three years…” (Corbet, 10/10). Devex: Q&A:…

BusinessDay: Donors must balance urgent health threats with sustainability of health systems Adèle Sulcas, editor of the Global Fund Observer “The world’s most powerful countries and most important providers of overseas development assistance, meeting this week, are likely to pledge, collectively, about $14bn for the next three-year funding period of…

France Diplomatie: France is hosting the Sixth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (9-10 October 2019, Lyon) “…The Sixth Replenishment Conference, which will take place on 9 and 10 October in Lyon, aims to raise as much as possible to fund this fight for…