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A forklift unloads boxes containing vials of the R21 malaria vaccine inside a cold room at the Serum Institute of India, in Pune, India, on February 27, 2024.
Governance

Making Aid Transition Work: Seven Lessons From the Private Sector

by Chris Collins, Jirair Ratevosian, Jeffrey L. Sturchio

As global health financing shifts toward country self-reliance, emphasis on principles like measurement and accountability can guide implementation

A scientific officer works in the research lab at the University of Cape Town's Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 17, 2025.
Governance

NIH Budget Cuts Threaten HIV Research

by Stacey Hannah, Mitchell Warren

AVAC leaders warn that the Trump administration's proposed funding rollback to the National Institutes of Health could derail the vaccine needed to end HIV

Governance

Why U.S.-Zambia Foreign Aid Negotiations Should Continue

by William Moss
A home-based caregiver visits an HIV/AIDS patient in her home in Matero township, Lusaka, Zambia, on April 17, 2012.
Governance

Securing Sustainable Funding for Civil Society Organizations

by Michael Elhardt, Robert Hecht, Chris Collins
HIV-positive members of a self-help group meet with a caregiver in the village of Michelo, Zambia, on February 23, 2015.
Governance

Charting Ebola Responses: How 2026 Stacks Up After Aid Cuts

by Stephanie Psaki, Anya Hirschfeld, Allison Krugman
A map titled "Where the 2026 Ebola Outbreak is Spreading" shows confirmed and suspected cases of Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda as of June 1, 2026. Affected regions are shaded in salmon/orange-red, and affected cities are marked with black dots. Ituri Province in northeastern DRC is labeled as having seen the most cases and is the largest highlighted region. Additional affected areas in DRC include militia-controlled Goma in North Kivu and areas near Bukavu in South Kivu. In Uganda, Kampala is marked as having confirmed nine cases. A small inset map shows the location of the outbreak region within the broader African continent. Source: Ministry of Health, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Governance

Public Health as Diplomacy: China's Southeast Asia Strategy

by Faye Ng Yu Ci, Yanzhong Huang
Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects an honor guard during the official welcoming ceremony at the national palace, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on April 16, 2025.
Governance

As Defunded HIV Programs Thin, Uneven Resilience Emerges

by mike Reid, Jirair Ratevosian
An HIV patient places her hand on her forehead during a visit by a caregiver at her home, in Lusaka, Zambia, on April 17, 2012.
Governance

No One Wins If Multilateralism for Health Loses

by Gunilla Carlsson, Anders Nordström
French President Emmanuel Macron, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and other delegates pose for photo during the One Health Summit in Lyon, France, on April 7, 2026.
Trade

China's Health Silk Road and Soft Power

by Bryan Burgess
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
Governance

Global Health Reform for Communities Beyond Institutions

by Eric Fleutelot
Community health workers prepare vaccines for a measles vaccination drive amid a surge in cases, in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, on February 25, 2026.
Governance

The Expanded Global Gag Rule and the Case for Regional Solidarity

by Jessica Oga, Moses Mulumba
A woman gazes out of a window while attending a talk on sexual health and HIV prevention, in the Tanghin neighborhood of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on April 13, 2013.
Governance

Sustaining Tuberculosis Innovations to Counter Foreign Aid Cuts

by Madhukar Pai
A man is treated for tuberculosis, at the Muniz public hospital, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 11, 2019.