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Line chart titled "China's Health Aid, 2000–23" showing inflation-adjusted Chinese health commitments to low- and middle-income countries in 2023 U.S. dollars. Aid remained mostly below $400 million from 2000 to 2004, then spiked to approximately $1.3 billion in 2005 following a large loan for Cuban hospitals, before falling back to under $400 million through 2014. After China introduced the Health Silk Road in 2015, aid rose to roughly $700 million in 2016, then fluctuated between $400–500 million through 2020. Aid surged dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, peaking near $2.4 billion around 2021–2022, then dropped sharply to near zero in 2023. Source: AidData

China's Health Silk Road and Soft Power

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Understanding China's previous engagement on health development can inform its future strategy as the United States pulls back

A Sudanese displaced woman who was held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), cooks food at a camp for displaced people who fled from al-Fashir to Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on November 15, 2025.

Feeding Dignity: A 2026 Blueprint for Food Aid in a Divided World

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From Sudan to the U.S. farm belt, hunger is rising not from scarcity but political disinvestment

What the Development Finance Corporation Reauthorization Means for Global Health Security

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The federal institution's new authorities and expanded mandate could facilitate U.S. engagement on global health security

Researchers work inside a laboratory at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 11, 2020.

Bird Flu Roars Back: An Update on Thanksgiving Turkey Prices

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Since September, turkey and egg farms have lost millions of birds, renewing pressure on food prices and biosecurity

Bird Flu Roars Back: An Update on Thanksgiving Turkey Prices

Using Health Taxes to Promote Public Good

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To accelerate progress on health taxes, governments should address three challenges that have stalled the reform

A man selling packets of cigarettes walks through a street, in the old district of Kano, Nigeria, on August 24, 2017.

Microfinance to Replace Declining Aid: A Roadmap in Trust

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With global aid dropping, microfinance institutions can shape the future of health equity

Health leader Sabikunnahar, wearing a bright pink traditional outfit, smiles while helping a young child wash their hands with soap and water outdoors beside a corrugated tin wall.

Driving Economic Gains Through Brain Capital

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An emerging economic belief system emphasizes brain health, as mental illnesses sap trillions of dollars in productivity

A scientist looks at hypometabolic and hypoperfusion patterns at the single-subject level from a patient with Alzheimer's disease at the Memory Centre, in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 6, 2023.

The Pollution Market: An Auction for Better Air Quality in West India

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An experiment using emission trading schemes between factories offers an alternative fix for industrial air pollution

The Pollution Market: An Auction for Better Air Quality in West India

Africa's Shift From Aid Dependency

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The future of African health systems will be driven by domestic investment and demand for regionally made drugs

Africa's Shift From Aid Dependency

U.S. Retreat from Gavi Cedes Influence to China's Vaccine Suppliers

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The loss of U.S. funding could leave Gavi with three options to downsize its operations

U.S. Retreat from Gavi Cedes Influence to China's Vaccine Suppliers

U.S. Egg Prices See Largest Jump Since 1980 as Bird Flu Outbreaks Continue

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A new version of H5N1 influenza continues to pound poultry, but price relief could be on the way

U.S. Egg Prices See Largest Jump Since 1980 as Bird Flu Outbreaks Continue

Sloth Fever: Latin America's Oropouche Epidemic

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Without global collaboration and action to address root causes, Oropouche fever is likely to continue spreading

Sloth Fever: Latin America's Oropouche Epidemic