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Reducing access to vital treatments against drug-resistant TB will likely pose huge risks for everyone, including Americans. The 90-day freeze on most aid while this assessment is carried out causes real challenges for accessing medication. Even though waivers have been written for TB treatment and ...

In this blog, we conceptualise this as a health system shock, present a back-of-the-envelope assessment of LMICs that are most exposed, and discuss possibilities for short-term policy responses from other funders and LMIC governments, drawing lessons from the rapid global response to COVID-19.

Global inequality is increasing, posing risks to economic stability, social cohesion, and long-term growth. While the rapid development of emerging markets has narrowed income gaps between countries, disparities within nations continue to widen. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these inequalities, ...

Alongside the 90-day freeze of foreign assistance projects launched by the US administration, USAID has seen a number of contracts and grants terminated early during the period since January 24th. Wayan Vota has been compiling a spreadsheet of these agreements. With the caveats that this is likely o...

The Center for Global Development (CGD) has today announced the appointment of Markus Goldstein and Clemence Landers as Vice Presidents and Senior Fellows.

As part of a wave of public reviews and consultations, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has issued a call for inputs on reforming how it thinks about the value for money (VFM) of its spending. In its earlier incarnation, the Department for International Development (DfID) w...

The Trump administration’s directives to freeze most of US foreign assistance and dismantle USAID have hit the international development ecosystem hard. For people working on issues related to gender equality and inclusion, the administration’s actions have hit even harder. Along with pausing aid an...

Recent discussions on climate finance have primarily focused on who should pay and how much, with less attention given to impact or effectiveness. But we’ve shown before that the effectiveness of climate finance can be questioned, and have urged a greater focus on quality, not just quantity. This is...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as US secretary of health and human services comes at a critical moment for global health. To uphold and strengthen the US role in global health—and safeguard decades of progress while protecting Americans from emerging health threats—Secretary Kennedy should pri...

Dr. Javier Guzman responds to the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr as Secretary of Health and Human Services.