Exclusive: New Global Fund chief Sands eyes disease elimination as goal
devex.com - "Peter Sands, the new executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, wants his organization to be more technologically savvy, learn more from its past experiences, and learn from them quickly. That’s how he believes the Global Fund will build on its previous work tackling its targeted diseases and, in the foreseeable future, eliminating them.
“By 2022, when we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Global Fund, we want to be saying: We are on track for an irreversible, decisive victory over AIDS, TB, and malaria, and that we cannot just celebrate the millions of lives that have been saved, which is absolutely, hugely important, but also the fact that we have eliminations firmly in our sights,” Sands told Devex in a one-on-one phone interview just a few hours after the Global Fund board announced his appointment as the new executive director on Tuesday." (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)