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Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria

News, comment and features on the Global Fund, an international financing organisation that aims to attract and disburse resources to prevent and treat HIV and Aids, tuberculosis and malaria

April 2024

  • Tony-Jason, eight months, and his mother, Melissa, at home in Soa, near Yaoundé, Cameroon, with the mosquito nets in their bedroom.

    Fair Access
    New types of mosquito bed nets could cut malaria risk by up to half, trial finds

    Changing the mixture of insecticide used in the netting has proved effective in fight against the disease that killed 600,000 in 2022

November 2022

  • Caregivers in Senegal.

    UK criticised for ‘disastrous decision’ to cut health aid pledge by almost a third

    Charities say reduced donations to the Global Fund will lead to the preventable deaths of up to 1.5 million people

October 2022

  • President Joe Biden had raised the issue of increased Global Fund contributions with Liz Truss last month.

    UK on collision course with Joe Biden over cuts to aid pledge

  • Peter Sands, the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria

    Fair Access
    Pledge aid or deprive Commonwealth’s poorest in diseases fight, UK warned

September 2022

  • A woman talks to a man outside a tin shack

    The Global Fund has saved 50m lives. So why has the UK refused to make a pledge?

    Sarah Champion
    Liz Truss’s first UN general assembly was a chance to commit to fighting global disease – millions of lives hang in the balance
  • World leaders at the seventh replenishment conference of the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, in New York

    UK accused of abandoning global south as it fails to boost spending on key fund

    Liz Truss’s administration becomes only major world power not to raise its spending at UN pledging event
  • A nurse filling a syringe with malaria vaccine before administering it to an infant at a hospital in Kenya.

    UK under pressure to increase aid to Global Fund after US pledge

    Initiative to fight malaria, TB and Aids has asked for 30% increase after Covid crisis, but UK yet to announce pledge

February 2022

  • A tuberculosis clinic in Nairobi, Kenya.

    Increase funding or abandon hope of ending malaria, TB and Aids, UK warned

    Global Fund urges UK and other donors to pledge billions to get efforts to end diseases by 2030 ‘back on track’ after catastrophic impact of Covid

December 2021

  • Patients wait outside a TB Clinic in Kibera

    ‘She didn’t deserve to die’: Kenya fights tuberculosis in Covid’s shadow

    For the first time in a decade deaths from TB are rising, with the curable disease killing 20,000 Kenyans last year. Now testing ‘ATMs’ and other innovations are helping to find ‘missing cases’

February 2018

  • Heineken beer bottles

    Not remotely refreshing: global health fund criticised over Heineken alliance

    Campaigners condemn decision of chief fundraiser for HIV, TB and malaria to enter partnership with Heineken

September 2016

  • Civil rights activists march in Durban, South Africa, Monday, July 18, 2016, at the start of the 21st World Aids Conference. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters Monday that the gains the world has made against AIDS are “inadequate and fragile.” He said more than half the people around the world infected with HIV, or 20 million people, still don’t have access to treatment. (AP Photo)

    Live Q&A: How do we increase the HIV response with limited funds?

    What are the most cost-effective ways of reaching those living with HIV but are not being treated? Discuss with an expert panel on 6 October, 3pm–4.30pm BST

May 2016

  • Demonstrators in South Africa hold hands during a protest in support of the Treatment Action Campaign global call to action on tuberculosis and HIV/Aids.

    LGBT change
    We will lose the battle against HIV without LGBT decriminalisation

    Bisi Alimi
    With the International Aids Conference just two months away, there is no better time to talk about access, equity and rights in the fight against HIV

March 2016

  • Elias Oluja, lab technician from Tiriri health centre IV, tests patients for HIV during his weekly visit to the lab.

    Uganda's failure to spend Global Fund grants denies thousands HIV treatment

    Audit by Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria found millions of dollars unspent while health centres ran low on life-saving drugs

November 2015

  • The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) provided Pneumococcal vaccines to Nicaragua, Honduras and Guyana in 2011.

    Which are the best aid donors? Governments have their say

    Duncan Green
    Who gives the best advice? Who is most influential? And who is most helpful? The top 20 big aid groups, as rated by beneficiary governments around the world

October 2015

  • A mother holds her baby as she receives a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya, October 30, 2009. In a statement published on Friday, July 24, 2015, the European Medicines Agency is recommending that the world’s leading malaria vaccine be licensed even though it is only about 30 percent effective and that protection fades over time. The vaccine, known as Mosquirix and made by GlaxoSmithKline, protects only about one-third of children though it might help protect some kids from getting the parasitic disease.

    World Health Organisation right to be wary about first malaria vaccine

    Seth Berkley and Mark Dybul
  • A mosquito warning sign at a village in Pailin province, 350km north-west of Phnom Penh

    Cambodia's battle against malaria put at risk as expenses row holds up funds

April 2014

  • Ghanaian fans

    Global healthcare
    How one Ghanaian town sprayed away 74% of malaria cases in two years

    The impact of malaria on productivity led one mining company to implement a comprehensive anti-malaria programme, now used in 22 districts. Sue George reports on the Obuasi model

February 2014

  • MDG : Kenya HPV vaccination : Schoolgirls been vaccinated against cervical cancer

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Kenyan girls get cervical cancer vaccine but women's wait for treatment goes on

    Vaccination offers hope to future generations but lack of money and long waiting times cut chances for those with the disease

December 2013

  • MDG : Outbreak Of Malaria In DRC, Democratic Republic Of Congo

    Malaria deaths among children under five halved since turn of the century

    World Health Organisation report identifies 51% drop among under-fives between 2000-12, and 45% fall across all ages

November 2013

  • A woman walks past a World AIDS Day awareness billboard in downtown Kuala Lumpur, 01 December 2006. The World Health Organisation called 01 December on Asia-Pacific leaders to make a greater effort in the fight against HIV/AIDS as the number of people with the virus continues to grow. In 2006, an estimated 8.6 million people in the region are living with HIV, the WHO said, 960,000 of whom were infected in the past year. AFP PHOTO/TENGKU BAHAR (Photo credit should read TENGKU BAHAR/AFP/Getty Images)

    World Aids Day: 25 years of campaigning – in pictures

    In 1988, the World Health Organisation said it would promote Aids awareness each year on 1 December. We chart a quarter century of activism to mark World Aids Day
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