U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts Hit Record Lows, Threatening Disease Control Programs

Millions of people whose health has benefited from global health programs will face reduced access to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria services as funding collapses.

For more than two decades, the world's poorest nations built health systems on the assumption that external support would endure. Now, the United States and the Global Fund—the twin pillars of modern global health financing—are withdrawing $4.3 billion from 29 countries by 2029, a 24 percent reduction that has no precedent in the era that began with PEPFAR and the Global Fund's founding. The cuts arrive not as a gradual adjustment but as a structural rupture, arriving simultaneously from both major donors, leaving nations that have organized their health workforces, disease surveillance, and t

U.S. Global Health Funding Cuts Hit Record Lows, Threatening Disease Control Programs

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