Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s “VOICES”: Our Global Health Security is Only as Strong as our Weakest Link Roslyn Morauta, vice chair of the Board of the Global Fund, discusses the importance of addressing regional and global health challenges to ensure global health security, using Papua New…

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has published Issue 358 of the “Global Fund Observer.” The newsletter features several articles, including a piece on the rollout of a Global Fund donation to Venezuela to address the country’s worsening…

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s “VOICES”: Silence Is Bad for Women’s Health Linda Mafu, head of political and civil society advocacy at the Global Fund, discusses the role of social movements, like the #MeToo movement, in advocating against sexual violence and ending HIV/AIDS. Mafu notes, “We will…

Devex: Opinion: The U.S. must continue to support Africa’s advances in health Charles Holmes, co-director at the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact and visiting associate professor of medicine at Georgetown University; Susan C. Kim, executive director of the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact and assistant professor…

aidsmap: Most new HIV infections occur in lower prevalence countries not prioritized by PEPFAR “The burden of the global HIV epidemic is disproportionately falling on lower-prevalence countries, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Virus Eradication. The majority of new HIV infections, cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission, and…

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Takeda Makes First Private Sector Pledge for Global Fund Replenishment “Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today became the first private sector company to announce a financial commitment to the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment. The new pledge, consisting of JP ¥ 1 billion (approximately…

Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Empowering women and girls in the fight against HIV Sarah Hollis, senior communications manager at Friends of the Global Fight, highlights the advocacy work of two African women affected by HIV, noting, “As HIV Epidemic Response (HER) Ambassadors, Martha and…

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has published Issue 357 of the “Global Fund Observer.” The newsletter includes pieces on various topics, including a news article on the Global Fund approval of new country and multi-country grants, an…

Deseret News: Guest opinion: Don’t slash the Global Fund William E. Cosgrove, past president of the Utah Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics “…Every three years the donor nations meet to re-commit to supporting the Global Fund. This October there is another opportunity for the United States to again…

Foreign Policy: Good Health Supports Good Governance Matthew M. Kavanagh, visiting professor of law at Georgetown University and the director of the Global Health Policy and Governance Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law “…There is plenty of research showing that countries that succeed in building…