There is understandably much cause for hope in the current talk around an AIDS-free generation and Ending AIDS. As last week's UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report pointed out, intensive scale-up of treatment, prevention and care has now resulted in dramatic reductions in AIDS-related deaths and new...

In a modern, globalized world, the country in which you live or the income you earn should not determine whether or not your child will become HIV positive. And yet in my country, France, only three babies were infected last year with HIV during their mothers' pregnancy, labor, delivery, or...

It is an incredibly rewarding feeling to see the work to which you've dedicated your life being championed by others. For that, I would like to offer my most sincere thanks to Morgan Freeman, Annie Lennox, Deepak Chopra, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou and the many other inspiring individuals who have...

"Making AIDS history," this year's Capitol Hill conference organized by amfAR the Foundation for AIDS research, is of particular significance as the world marks the 30th anniversary of AIDS but also amfAR's 25th anniversary.

As we look back on what we have accomplished in this fight over the last...

Anyone who despairs at the sheer scale of the challenge that AIDS represents should hear the story of Jacqueline, a 21-year-old Brazilian mother who I met this week in Sao Paulo during a Global Fund conference. She was born HIV-positive and grew up destitute, but was put on treatment as...

Today the international community is gathered in New York to assess progress in combating AIDS, ten years after the historic United Nations General Assembly Special sessions that led to the creation of the Global Fund. It is important to reflect on the progress we have made since AIDS was first...

This week, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria released its investigation report on some of our grants in Mali. It is truly sobering to read how a few individuals, who were tasked with managing two malaria and two tuberculosis programs that should save the lives of thousands...

By Michel Kazatchkine and Philippe Douste-Blazy

When the daughter of Hajia Aisha, a young jobless mother in Nigeria, fell ill with malaria earlier this year, Hajia saved her life by rushing out to a shop and buying state of the art medication for the equivalent of just 25 U.S....

On a recent visit to the Rwandan capital, Kigali, I was deeply struck by the words of a 15-year-old I met called Olivier who is living with HIV and receiving treatment with the help of the Global Fund.

He looked at me intensely, his eyes burning with new-found hope, and...

We are at a defining moment in the struggle against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria -- killers that claim 5 million lives each year. To date, the world has made dramatic advances in the fight against these global threats, but what we choose to do this year could mean the difference...

GENEVA -- World leaders meeting at a G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, in 2001 launched one of the most ambitious health initiatives in modern history when they announced the creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Eight years on, G8 leaders gathering in another Italian town,...

DAVOS -- Gazing at the faces of contrite bankers and somewhat shell-shocked politicians who are in Davos trying to figure out how to right a capsized global economy, I wish to remind them that if the world's rich think they have never had it so bad, the developing world is...

As I reflect on World AIDS Day, I am struck by the great achievements made in global health in just the past six years. In financial terms, the change has been staggering. AIDS spending went from about $600 million in 2000 to $10 billion last year. Tuberculosis spending was $800...