President Obama and the Global Fund: Love on the rocks?

Mildred Fernando, a Filipino TB survivor, shared her experience battling the disease at a Hill panel last week hosted by RESULTS to commemorate World TB Day 2013. Mildred’s story of her remarkable ten year battle with drug-resistant TB not only illustrates the true gravity of the disease but the absolute imperative of working towards its eradication.

Katri Kemppainen-Bertram discusses the co-epidemic of TB/HIV and how combatting them together could be the solution to the epidemic. What do you see when you visualize an organization called The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria? Possibly sex (as HIV can be transmitted through unprotected sex), possibly drugs (anti-malaria pills during travels where

As I’m sure you all can imagine, it’s been a busy week in Congress. With the budget debate still going strong and sequestration looking more and more likely, all US-funded programs are on the chopping block. Photo credit: The Global Fund  With everything at risk, the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), a group of more than 25

In this week’s Amazing Africa, we’re paying homage to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, an organization that is  severely at risk of being cut by Congress, although it has helped more than 4.2 million people receive HIV treatment, 9.7 million receive anti-tuberculosis medication and more than 310 million receive insecticide  nets to

That’s the premise of our “It Starts with Me” campaign and it’s the reason that we hope you have joined us in action. To build up the campaign, we are launching a brand new “It Starts with Me” t-shirt at the ONE store. These exclusive new tees, made in Tanzania and Uganda of 100% African cotton, are available in both men’s and women’s sizes. They are the perfect addition to your socially-conscious and ethically-sourced selection of statement tees that drive conversation and action among you and your friends.

It’s been a whirlwind 48 hours since the start of AIDS 2012, and I find myself constantly running from session to session, absorbing as much information as I can from the multitude of panels, symposia, abstracts, posters, satellite events, and workshops. (Check out the full conference programme here). Even more important is the opportunity to

Life happens here at the Tema Clinic in Accra, Ghana. Babies trade a death sentence for life. Mothers transform their sickly skeleton figures to healthy, able bodies. Tema offers hope in a place that was once hopeless and ravaged by AIDS. Funded by the Global Fund through financial support from Product (RED), Tema Hospital cares

To celebrate 10 years of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, they have launched a video celebrating some of their achievements over the last decade: Bono, Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and other guest advocates make an appearance in the video: If you feel inspired, please share!

In celebration of the Global Fund’s 10th anniversary, ONE Global Health Policy Manager Erin Hohlfelder reflects on the organization’s accomplishments over the years. When I was ten, I was busy doing important things like mastering long division, practicing softball and rocking the plastic glasses/bowl cut combo. While I’m proud of those accomplishments, I have to

Anne Marson of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria catalogs stories of inspiration, strength and hope from a recent trip to Peru. On a plot of land about the size of a football field sit two yellow-and-white structures. The small building (pictured at top) is a tuberculosis “clinic” responsible for serving