Items tagged with Global health

Highest-ever funding allocations announced to fight AIDS, TB and malaria (post)

GENEVA, 18 December 2019 − Following a record-breaking Replenishment in October 2019, the Global Fund today announced its largest-ever funding allocations for eligible countries to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and build systems for health over the next three years.

Coalition of public and private sector partners launches SDG500, a groundbreaking US$ 500 million investment platform to accelerate progress towards the SDGs (post)

A coalition of public and private sector partners, including United Nations entities, non-governmental organizations and a private equity firm, launched SDG500, a new investment platform to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting.

Global Fund issues new guidance in response to COVID-19 (post)

GENEVA, 04 March 2020 – The Global Fund announced today new guidance to enable countries to strengthen their response to the new coronavirus, COVID-19, by using existing grants in a swift, nimble and pragmatic way.

COVID-19 coronavirus and TB: We need a damage control plan (post)

As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the world, I and others working to fight TB have growing anxiety about what this pandemic will do to a much older infectious killer - tuberculosis (TB). We know from the Ebola experience that epidemics can disrupt even basic services such as routine immunization. No doubt, COVID-19 will adversely affect all routine health services everywhere. But TB services is might be one of the biggest casualties. Why?

Global Fund supports 11 countries in response to COVID-19 (post)

GENEVA – The Global Fund announced today that 11 countries have so far used financial assistance from the Global Fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fighting TB: Lessons for COVID-19 (post)

As governments around the world struggle to contain spiraling infections and an ever-increasing death toll from COVID-19, it’s worth reflecting on what lessons we can draw from the long and still unfinished fight against tuberculosis – the world’s most deadly infectious disease that kills nearly 1.5 million per year.

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