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Delegates attend the 79th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization, in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 18, 2026.
Governance

WHO Elections: Reform Without Reckoning

by Summer Galloway

The organization cannot be reshaped without confronting its internal structure, partnership rules, and expanding operational role

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

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

by William Moss

International Vaccine Access Center lead William Moss explains why Zambia needs funding to maintain progress on malaria, HIV, and vaccination programs

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.
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 Global Health Reform Debate's Dangerous Blindspot 

by Philippe Duneton
A worker displays a plastic test cassette for HIV 1/2 at Codix Bio production plant where HIV and Malaria test kits are locally produced, as it aims to fill the gap left by U.S. funding cuts to USAID, in Iperu-Remo in Ogun State, Nigeria, on June 18, 2025.
Governance

The United States Maintains Its Global Fund Commitment

by Prashant Yadav, Elena Every
Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store listens during the Global Fund event on November 21, 2025, in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, ahead of the G20 Summit, which begins tomorrow. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS
Governance

Health and Science Diplomacy Protects Everyone

by Joshua Glasser
Health and Science Diplomacy Protects Everyone
Governance

A WHO Director on the Future of Polio Eradication

by Allison Krugman
A WHO Director on the Future of Polio Eradication
Governance

Expanding Medical Oxygen Access Without U.S. Foreign Aid

by Leith Greenslade
Expanding Medical Oxygen Access Without U.S. Foreign Aid
Governance

We Must Let a Million Flowers Bloom

by Poonam Muttreja
A million blooming flowers—and then some! Here a woman works inside her mustard field on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on March 26, 2015. The photo shows a woman bending over in a field of bright yellow blossoms. REU-TERS/Danish Ismail
Poverty

Scaling up Surgery and Anesthesia, Post-Coronavirus

by Craig D. McClain, Laura Hoemeke, Natalie Sheneman
An intubated patient tries to gesture at a medical worker holding his hand at the Sotiria hospital ICU during the coronavirus outbreak, in Athens, Greece, on April 25, 2020. Picture shows the hand of a patient in a hospital bed being held by the blue-gloved hand of a medical worker. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis