“At Global Fund, we think of human health issues as, fundamentally, rights issues. It shouldn't be a matter of luck whether you live or die to a disease that we know how to cure. It should be a matter of justice and right that we provide the way to keep people alive. Certainly one thing we are increasingly focused on is the fact that biomedical interventions are absolutely essential – the latest vaccines, the latest diagnostics, the latest instruments. But they're not enough.”

The speech of Peter Sands, Executive Director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, at the Aurora Dialogues discussion titled 'The Humanitarian Impacts of Living in a Broken World,' which took place at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice on October 16.