op-eds and advocacy
A few samples of op-eds and advocacy material I have written, ghostwritten or co-written
War in Ukraine: Maintaining Lifesaving HIV and TB Services
Pandemic or Not, Medical Oxygen Remains Essential by Peter Sands - Project Syndicate
Africa must climate-proof health systems to withstand environmental disasters
Entire villages were buried or swept away. Here in Malawi, as is the case elsewhere in Africa, drought is alternating with intensified rainfall, leading to the paradox of landslides even as harvests perish for lack of water.
Just as critical, especially for the long-term recovery of Malawi, Freddy wrecked many of our health facilities. Some are entirely gone, while others will take months to repair and restock.
This is particularly concerning as Malawi has been battling a severe cholera epidem
Just as critical, especially for the long-term recovery of Malawi, Freddy wrecked many of our health facilities. Some are entirely gone, while others will take months to repair and restock.
This is particularly concerning as Malawi has been battling a severe cholera epidem
Conflicts, Crises and Displaced People:
Results Report 2023
2022 was a year of rapid acceleration in the Global Fund partnership’s fight against HIV, TB and malaria. Programs to tackle the three diseases registered a solid recovery after being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. After seeing the gains of the last two decades sharply reversed during 2020 and only a partial recovery the following year, in 2022 we put more people on antiretroviral treatment for HIV than ever before, we found and put on treatment more people with TB than ever before, and we