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A chart titled “Health Funding from Major Donors,” shows changes in development assistance for health over 1990–2025, from Australia, Japan, South Korea, France, United Kingdom, and the United States. All countries experienced a sharp increase in funding during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a significant decline. The United States was the largest donor, peaking around $24B, followed by the UK (peak $5.7B) and France ($3.3B). Japan, Australia, and South Korea contributed smaller amounts.

The State of Global Health Funding: August 2025

by Allison Krugman

Six months after cuts to foreign aid, mostly by the United States, a new global health landscape is taking shape

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Patients with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) wear masks while awaiting consultation at a clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 23, 2010.

Africa's Tuberculosis Funding Crisis: Moving Beyond External Saviors

by Christopher Kalila

Recent foreign aid cuts have exposed the need for domestic responses to maintain progress against the fatal disease

A man walks past the liquid oxygen storage tank installed at Bir Hospital by the United States Agency for International Development, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on February 9, 2025.
Governance

USAID Lost: Stories From Colombia, Kenya, and Nepal

by Thoai D. Ngo 

Public health and development professionals share insights from three nations hit hard by U.S. cuts to foreign aid

Staff label plastic bags filled with donated blood, in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 9, 2012.
Trade

The Neglected Crisis in Safe Blood Access

by Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy, Thomas Muyombo, Bridon M'baya, Onyekachi C. Subah, Adeel Ishtiaq

Amid declining global aid, access to safe blood risks falling through the cracks. Promising new initiatives offer hope

A vendor writes as she stands in a legal pharmacy, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on October 16, 2018.
Trade

Africa's Shift From Aid Dependency

by Muhammad Ali Pate, Philippe Duneton

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

U.S. Air Force servicemen unload humanitarian aid from a U.S. military cargo plane at Tbilisi airport, in Tbilisi, Georgia, on August 14, 2008.
Governance

U.S. Soft Power: Next Steps After the Foreign Aid Withdrawal

by Stephanie Psaki

A former White House official on the future of advancing strategic interests while saving lives and growing economies

A health worker sprays disinfectants a train as a measure against the COVID-19, in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 19, 2020.
Governance

As Foreign Aid Lags, Regional Health Agencies Come to the Fore

by Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd

Regional organizations are well positioned to harmonize disease surveillance systems and serve as hubs for knowledge

A Ugandan woman living with HIV/AIDS waits to receive antiretroviral drugs from the Infectious Disease Institute, in Kampala, Uganda, on November 30, 2006.
Governance

Life With Less PEPFAR: The First 100 Days in Tanzania and Uganda

by Emily Bass

Stories on the ground support and contradict media narratives about what the HIV program has lost

A grid of 200 human icons represents excess deaths in Nigeria after potential funding cuts for nutrition treatment. Most icons (in dark blue) indicate baseline deaths, while 40 icons at the bottom (in red) represent additional deaths due to a 49% reduction in treatment. The title reads: "Excess Deaths After Nutrition Treatment Funding Cuts," with a legend showing dark blue as "Baseline" and red as "Additional deaths with 49% reduction in treatment."
Food

Visualizing Nutrition Deficits After USAID's Overhaul

by Abraham D. Flaxman, Sylvia Lutze, Alison Bowman

A new computer simulation illustrates the impact of alternative funding scenarios for child nutrition programs in LMICs

Women attend a talk on sexual health and HIV prevention organised by the Jesuit-founded Association Solidarite Vie e Santa (ASVS - Association of Solidarity, Life and Health) at their welcome centre and clinic in the Tanghin neighbourhood of Ouagadougou April 13, 2013
Gender

Reimagining Sexual and Reproductive Health Without U.S. Involvement

by Anu Kumar, Pansi Katenga

The Helms Amendment and the Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, are moot without U.S. aid funding

Cervical cancer patient lays on a bed in the female ward of a cancer institute, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on November 11, 2009.
Gender

USAID Cuts Could Sever HPV Prevention

by Binay Shah

Slashing global aid will limit access to the HPV vaccine and widen disparities in cervical cancer

Point map showing women killed in Kenya in 2024.
Gender

Gender-Based Violence in Kenya and U.S. Foreign Aid

by Frank Burkybile

Losing U.S. support will jeopardize access to essential services in Kenya that combat gender-based violence and femicide

A Doctors without Borders employee supports a woman in Mykolaiv, Ukraine after a Russian missile destroyed her house, October 10, 2023.
Governance

U.S. Cuts to Ukraine's Foreign Aid Hit Health Workforce

by Anya Hirschfeld

Ukraine, with $1.4 billion curtailed, is the single biggest loser of U.S. foreign aid

Dr. Stuebing examining a patient who came in for vomiting blood. 
Poverty

Why the World Needs Africa to Be Healthy

by Beth Stuebing

A firsthand account of HIV exposure explains how gutting aid to Africa will create global ripple effects