Blogs

90% of the world’s adolescents with HIV are living in sub-Saharan Africa. The global scale-up of HIV prevention of mother to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programmes has resulted in a substantial decline in numbers of infants being born with HIV.

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of our former President and Manson Medallist, Professor Wallace Peters

2018 has been an eventful 12 months for us and, as is custom when the year draws to a close, we wanted to look back at our achievements, thank our members and supporters and look ahead to 2019, and the exciting things to come.  

The proportion of the global population vulnerable to heat-related death and disease is growing as a result of climate change’s effects on growing populations of older people, people living in cities, and people with non-communicable diseases

This World Toilet Day, we’re happy to be sharing a blog originally published by the International Coalition for Trachoma Control, authored by Leah Wohlgemuth, Chair of the WASH Working Group and Regional Technical Advisor at Sightsavers and Professor KH Martin Kollmann, Chair of the DMDI Working Group and Senior Advisor NTDs at CBM.