The pledges include both new and previously announced funding, and are expected to reduce the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s funding gap from $1.7 billion to about $440 million.
Bill Steiger is a Republican global health insider and former USAID chief of staff.
Innovative financing tools are emerging in the global health sector to address funding cuts. Plus, WHO issues recommendations for weight-loss drugs to treat obesity, and the U.S. taps faith-based organizations in its new global health approach.
A simple, one-time procedure that sharply lowers HIV risk has long been a quiet success story in Botswana — until U.S. funding cuts halted the community outreach behind it.
UNFPA's matching fund has been successful in getting 36 governments to allocate additional domestic resources for reproductive health commodities. A Gates Foundation-funded pilot is looking at how that can be replicated for maternal, newborn, and child health.
The termination of USAID governance programs in Uganda has narrowed the country's civic space, and the halting of USAID-backed nutrition system in Nepal threatens to unravel gains in malnutrition elimination. Plus, the CEO of The END Fund dives into their funding model.
In the wake of mass foreign aid cuts, the global health sector can learn lessons from The END Fund’s private sector, collaborative approach.
