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Explore English-language articles written by or featuring JCIE staff and senior fellows, coverage of JCIE events, and stories written by JCIE’s US-Japan Journalism Fellows. For Japanese language articles click here.

New Japanese-Language Video by FGFJ Explains the Global Fund’s Lifesaving Work
| Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund)
April 9, 2021
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and The Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) have come together to produce an animated video in Japanese introducing the roles…

FGFJ x GLOBE+ Interview Series | From Hopelessness to Hopefulness—Three Decades of Leading the Fight against HIV/AIDS
| Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) x Asahi GLOBE+
March 26, 2021
This installment of the “Infectious Diseases Without Borders: Our Story” features Ambassador Mark Dybul, who decided to pursue a medical career to fight HIV/AIDS and ended up leading the American effo…
Japan's Friendship with the US Remains Unshakable
Koji Tomita | The Hill
March 11, 2021
This opinion piece was written by Ambassador Koji Tomita, who references a 2016 JCIE survey on US givings in the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster response.

US-Japan Cooperation on COVID-19 with James Gannon
| The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies: Asia in Washington Podcast
January 28, 2021
Jim Gannon, Executive Director of JCIE/USA, discusses Japan’s COVID-19 response and the expanding potential of the US-Japan cooperation in this episode of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center’s “Asia in Was…
Global Health Needs US-Japan Partnership
James Gannon | Council on Foreign Relations: Asia Unbound
December 18, 2020
Jim Gannon, Executive Director of JCIE/USA, calls for greater US-Japan partnership on pandemic response and global health in this piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia Unbound blog, pointin…

FGFJ x GLOBE+ Interview Series | Surviving TB & COVID – What a South African Doctor Has to Tell the World
| Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) x Asahi GLOBE+
December 10, 2020
This interview features Zolelwa Sifumba, a young medical doctor from South Africa who has survived MDR-TB and COVID-19. In it, she shares more about her experiences with communicable diseases and her…