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HIV-positive members of a self-help group meet with a caregiver in the village of Michelo, Zambia, on February 23, 2015.
Governance

Securing Sustainable Funding for Civil Society Organizations

by Michael Elhardt, Robert Hecht, Chris Collins

The United States and Global Fund should work with partner governments to transition support for groups delivering HIV and tuberculosis services after aid cuts

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
Trade

China's Health Silk Road and Soft Power

by Bryan Burgess

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

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
Governance

National Security Risks and the American Weak Link

by Ans Irfan, Cynthia Golembeski, Jonathan Williams, Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco
A volunteer places American flags on the National Mall in Washington DC—representing some of the more than 200,000 lives lost in the United States to coronavirus—on September 22, 2020. The photo shows a young woman on one knee planting a small American flag in the ground. Many more can be seen blurred and out of focus in the foreground. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Trade

Vaccine Nationalism and Africa

by Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene
Volunteers wait for their names to be called before testing and taking part in a COVID-19 clinical trial at the Wits RHI Shandukani Research Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 27, 2020. Picture shows a waiting room full of people. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko