COVID-19: Learning from the HIV/AIDS pandemic response in Africa.

About 74.9 million persons were infected during the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome HIV/AIDS global pandemic with nearly half of them succumbing to the disease. In 2018 alone, Africa recorded over 400,000 AIDS-related deaths which is more than half of the global total.

Global fund: Analyzing 10 Years of bridging health inequalities.

The Global Fund is a non-profit organization founded by Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Kofi Annan, Amir Attaran, and Jeffrey Sachs on the 28th January, 2002. Each year, about US$ 4 billion is invested to support programs and organizations led by local experts in various communities towards developing strategies and ways in which these three (HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis) diseases could be fought. The Global Fund has supported various innovative strategies used in tackling these infectious diseases.