Friends Hails President’s Budget for Including $2 Billion for Global Fund in FY23 and Pledging $6 Billion for the Seventh Replenishment
Celebrating Bipartisan Congressional Leadership in Global Health
New Film: We Will Keep Fighting Until Our Last Breath
Leveraging the HIV Response for Stronger Health Systems & Pandemic Preparedness
The Pandemic Preparedness We Need: Q&A with Friends' CEO Chris Collins
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A smart, lifesaving U.S. investment
THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, AND MALARIA
Is the world’s largest global health funder
Invests more than $4 billion a year in programs run by local experts and governments
Builds stronger health systems, health security and pandemic preparedness
Accelerates the end of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases
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Ending AIDS
Translating Progress into Success to End the AIDS Epidemic is a collaboration between amfAR, AVAC, and Friends of the Global Fight, with technical assistance from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The report was conceptualized to take stock of how far we have come – and how far we have to go – toward ending HIV and AIDS around the world.
Ending TB
TB is curable. We need renewed and sustained political will to combat this epidemic. We know we can end the TB epidemic. It is a matter of scaling up effective programs, dedicating sufficient resources and mobilizing the political will. This report highlights six locations where communities made impressive progress to significantly reduce TB cases and deaths – from California in the United States to Tomsk, Russia and Karachi, Pakistan.
Ending Malaria
In the last two decades, global efforts against malaria have reached a tipping point, allowing health leaders for the first time to move beyond merely controlling this ancient disease and instead commit to ending it.
RECENT NEWS
Global Health Update: Thank You Senate Appropriations Committee for Allocating $2 Billion a Year to the Global Fund
Here is a quick look at what’s new in our work to fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria in the age of COVID-19.
Maya’s Story: Uncovering the Stigma Behind HIV & Tuberculosis
Days before her wedding day, Maya found out she was HIV positive. Maya feared being ostracized by her family if she told them about her diagnosis, so she kept her status a secret. Stigma and discrimination are a reality that Maya faces nearly every day in her community in Indonesia. Her HIV status also makes…
How COVID-19 is Affecting the Global Response to AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a serious impact on the most vulnerable communities worldwide and threatens progress on HIV, TB, malaria, vaccination and other areas of health. Below, you can find regularly updated information on the impact of COVID-19 on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria and news items from around the world on important developments. 1….
Friends Lauds Senate State, Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee For Including $2 Billion for Global Fund in FY 2023
Friends Lauds Senate State, Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee For Including $2 Billion for Global Fund in FY 2023 Other countries must now step up to unlock funding or risk leaving U.S. money on the table Washington, DC – Friends applauds the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) for including $2…
It Will Take More Than Pills to End the HIV Epidemic
This is a personal essay by Joyce Ouma , an HIV advocate in Kenya. Joyce Ouma , an HIV advocate in Kenya. In 2014, during my final year of high school, I developed painful red welts all over my body. I didn’t know then that the rash was shingles, which can be a sign of HIV. When…