World AIDS Day marks a time to remember the tens of millions of people who have died from AIDS-related illnesses, including nearly 700,000 people just last year.
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Families in agricultural giant Guatemala are left starving, malnourished.
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Faith-Based Coalition for the Global Fund sign letter of thanks to Congress for FY21 appropriations budget passing through House, and hopefully soon through the Senate.
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“The estimated increase in child wasting is only the tip of the iceberg. The COVID-19 pandemic is also expected to increase other forms of child malnutrition, including stunting, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight. The global community’s failure to act now will have devastating long-term consequences for children, human capital, and national economies.”
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Africa’s most developed economy now has the fifth highest case toll in the world.
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Local transmission of the virus has begun in many countries across the continent, and once it is seeded in vulnerable communities such as slums it "spreads like wildfire.”
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Advocates are now pushing the Senate to include $20 billion in its emergency supplemental, given the growing needs
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Faith-Based Coalition for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria Urged Congress to Consider Robust Funding for the International Response to COVID-19, including resources for those impacted by AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
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Faith-Based Coalition for Global Nutrition Requests Legislators Take Action in 4th COVID-19 Supplemental to Avoid Millions of Hunger-related Deaths Worldwide
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The challenge COVID-19 has posed to nations around the world has brought to light the necessity of outbreak preparedness — not just for grappling with the newest health crisis, but for all global threats, including AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and more.
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A Global Food Crisis Looms. The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the end of this year.
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“Sometimes the best is the enemy of the good: it’s my experience that there are a lot of innovations with average impact out there that are a lot easier to implement than things that are high impact,” Richard Kohl, president and lead strategy consultant, Strategy and Scale LLC.
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Friends of the Global Fight’s Mark Lagon reflects on pandemics, isolation, responsibility, and stigma for the Trinity Forum with this excellent piece on “Loving Your Neighbor.”
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Friends of the Global Fight's Peter Sands addresses the dire consequences of the spread of the coronavirus in Africa: "Covid-19 could stop progress towards ending the epidemics of HIV, TB and malaria, and reverse hard-won gains in mortality and infection rates.”
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Our partner Chris Collins and Advisory Board member Sten Vermund co-wrote this excellent piece on the Think Global Health blog with a focus on the global context as we grapple with our response here at home to COVID-19.
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Earlier this year, I traveled to Austin and spoke at the Texas Global Food Security Summit held on the sidelines of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Annual Convention.
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Last weekend, we had the chance to speak at Dr. Paul Osteen’s 5th annual conference in Houston at Lakewood Church, M3 (Medical, Mobile Missions) Conference. We were honored to have the opportunity to speak both Friday night during the plenary session as well as Saturday morning during a breakout session.
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Last week, President Trump released his annual request for the FY21 budget. During the previous three years, the Administration recommended a drastic cut for the international affairs account for foreign assistance. This year, the president’s recommended budget proposes a 22% overall cut to the account.
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The Alabama Healthy Mothers and Children Coalition launches a new website and app to serve their community, state-wide, with resources for parents in need with resources to help.
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