Todd Summers

Last week, the Group of Eight countries concluded their annual meeting and issued the requisite communiqués and reports. It’s getting to be a sad affair. For those of us focused on extreme poverty and global health, these summits can bring important promises such as the commitment at the 2005 Gleneagles Summit to double assistance to

Last week, the Global Fund board of directors met to review a range of issues, the most pressing of which was answering concerns about reports by its Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the theft of money or drugs from Global Fund grants. It’s an important discussion, but it can also be deflating. Donors are

A: Measles. Public health officials in Minnesota report 14 confirmed cases of measles, in people ranging in age from 4 months to 51 years old. While eight have been hospitalized, fortunately there have been no deaths. Far away in Africa, health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported a measles outbreak – this

A little while ago, we asked our friends on Facebook and Twitter to submit their questions on vaccines to me: We picked a few to answer, and here they are. Take a look: Ali Gohar Jamali from Pakistan (via Twitter) and Unimke Nawa from Nigeria (via Facebook) asked about ongoing efforts to develop vaccines for

John Keats, DH Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Henry David Thoreau. Famous poets that turned words to art. Sadly, they also had another thing in common: tuberculosis. In the late 1800s, TB was tearing through the US and Europe, causing many deaths. Today is World TB Day, an opportunity to take stock of progress made in ridding

Before departing for the weekend, we’re going to bump this blog post to the top of the feed. If you haven’t yet, please read it: We’re big supporters of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria here at ONE, with so many of our members helping raise awareness about the great work it’s

This post is also featured at the Huffington Post. Over the weekend, the Associated Press filed a story about corruption involving a small number of grants made by the Global Fund, an international partnership that channels funds to fight AIDS, TB and malaria from donors, like the United States, to some of the poorest countries

This is the second in today’s five-part series on innovative prevention efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS for World AIDS Day. Be sure to follow along throughout the day. Photos of the first panel at the USAID Microbicide Stakeholders Meeting (Photo Credit: USAID/Bethany Egan). There’s exciting news coming from researchers working on HIV prevention technologies

To commemorate World AIDS Day, Todd Summers kicks off a 5-part series looking at innovative prevention efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Be sure to follow along throughout the day: This World AIDS Day, we have much to celebrate—millions more on antiretroviral treatment, decreasing stigma, and increasing global partnership to fight this disease. The over

To commemorate World AIDS Day, we’re launching a series of blog posts to educate, inspire and update you about the fight against HIV/AIDS. Keep an eye out for posts like this one on the ONE Blog throughout the week Fortunata, who is HIV-positive, and her HIV-negative daughter, Florida Every year on December 1, the world

More than 1.5 million kids under the age of 5 die every year from pneumonia. Who knew? In wealthy countries, we tend to think of pneumonia as a disease of the elderly, but pneumonia actually kills more young children than HIV, measles and malaria combined. Another child dies from pneumonia every 20 seconds. Today is

Last week in New York City, donors were busy discussing their support for several global health funding initiatives. We’ve blogged already about the Global Fund replenishment meeting, but there was a separate meeting the day after for donors interested in supporting the GAVI Alliance, a mechanism that helps raise funding for introducing new and underused