As the Aid Model Collapses, Africa is Rewriting Its Health Future through the ‘African Leadership Meeting’

11/02/2026 Amma A Twum-Amoah

On the eve of the African Union’s annual meeting, leaders need to secure their countries by increasing spending on health. The year 2025 will go down in history as the moment the traditional model of global health financing ruptured. Sudden, sweeping aid cuts exposed a reality African policymakers have warned about for decades: while foreign […] Continue reading ->

US Signs Health MOU with Burundi, Chooses Hungary as Religious Partner

11/02/2026 Kerry Cullinan

Burundi has become the 16th African country to sign a five-year bilateral health Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the United States. The US “intends to provide more than $129 million of health assistance in Burundi for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and infectious disease surveillance, response, and preparation”, according to a statement from the US State Department. In […] Continue reading ->

Danger Remains Despite a Drop in Measles in the European Region

11/02/2026 Kerry Cullinan

Measles cases in Europe and Central Asia dropped by three-quarters in 2025 compared to the previous year – but the decline is partly due to the virus running out of people to infect after spreading rapidly through under-vaccinated communities. Preliminary data from 53 countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region reported 33,998 measles […] Continue reading ->

EXCLUSIVE: EU to Pledge €700 Million to Global Fund, Less Than Previous Years

10/02/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen

The European Commission intends to significantly cut its contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, ending a decades-long trend of increasing contributions to the multilateral health organisation. According to research by Health Policy Watch, the Commission plans to pledge €700 million over a four-year span from 2026 to 2029 at the […] Continue reading ->

WHO Talks About Violence – But Not Firearms

10/02/2026 Dean Peacock & Stephen Hargarten

For nearly three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised violence as a major public health concern. Since the landmark World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution of 1996, violence has been framed not only as a cause of injury and death, but as a driver of long-term physical, psychological, and social harm, as well as […] Continue reading ->

Powerful WHO Members Hint at Delay in Pandemic Talks if No Legal Certainty on Pathogen Information

09/02/2026 Kerry Cullinan

Powerful member state blocs at the World Health Organization (WHO) stressed on Monday that they will not compromise on the final outstanding piece of the Pandemic Agreement simply to meet the May deadline. The Group of Equity and the WHO’s Africa, Eastern Mediterranean and South-East Asia regions stated that they wanted a Pathogen Access and […] Continue reading ->

WHO Executive Board Adopts New Efficiency Measures But Can They Stick?

09/02/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher

After fits, starts, hours of back room negotiations and hesitations, the closing day of WHO’s Executive Board session Friday saw agreement on a number of small – but potentially meaningful – efficiency measures aimed at saving booth member states and the financially-strapped agency a time and money in preparing for and responding to member state […] Continue reading ->

Maternal and Child Nutrition Backslides: WHO Report Reveals

06/02/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen

The World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board faced a grim reckoning on Thursday in a report detailing how global progress on maternal, infant and child nutrition has largely stalled or even regressed. Notably, six critical nutrition targets remain “off track,” with rising rates of anaemia and childhood obesity sliding back, threatening to reverse years of […] Continue reading ->

WHO Slows Pace on Indigenous Health Strategy to Ensure ‘Meaningful’ Consent

06/02/2026 Felix Sassmannshausen

The World Health Organization (WHO) has slowed the pace on the development of a Global Plan of Action to advance the health of indigenous peoples globally, with the Executive Board voting on Thursday to delay the plan’s final consideration until May 2027. The draft strategy aims to address the stark health inequities faced by many […] Continue reading ->

Argentina: No Withdrawal from Pan American Health Organization – Despite Leaving WHO

06/02/2026 Elaine Ruth Fletcher

Although Argentina is withdrawing from the World Health Organization’s global body, it intends to remain an active member in WHO’s regional affiliate, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the country’s representative told the WHO Executive Board on Friday. His comments came in the course of a discussion on the legal and policy impacts of Argentina’s […] Continue reading ->