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Global Health Aid Cuts

This collection of resources chronicles what recent Trump administration global health aid cuts mean for the future of global health programs and the people who rely on them.

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The U.S. Government and Global Health

In this Health Policy 101 chapter, investigate the U.S. role in global health, including the major initiatives the United States supports, funding levels, and agencies involved in implementing program area efforts.

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Global Health Trackers

U.S. Global Health Budget Tracker

This tracker provides regularly updated information on U.S. government funding for global health. It includes historical trends and tracks funding levels for U.S. global health efforts through bilateral and multilateral contributions and by program area and agency.

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  • Comparing U.S. Ebola Outbreak Response Capabilities and Practices Over Time

    Issue Brief

    This brief compares the U.S. response to the current Ebola outbreak in DRC with U.S. responses to prior Ebola outbreaks across a variety of characteristics. It finds the US is on par or even faster with response funding, but the restructuring of the US response mechanisms and leadership (such as eliminating USAID) since 2025 have changed the organizational approach with unknown consequences, and how the US is engaging with international partners is different now.

  • KFF Health Tracking Poll: Ebola & Pandemic Preparedness

    Poll Finding

    Much of the public has yet to form an opinion on the U.S. government’s response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this poll finds. Four in ten adults say the U.S. is less prepared for a pandemic now than it was in 2020.

  • Donor Government Funding for HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2025

    Report

    This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address the HIV response in low- and middle-income countries in 2025, the latest year available, as well as trends over time. It includes both bilateral funding from donors and their multilateral contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

  • Donor Government Funding for HIV Drops by $2.1 Billion in 2025 Due to Declines in Funding from the United States, Marking Largest Annual Decrease Since Scale-up for the HIV Response Began

    News Release

    Donor government funding to combat HIV in low- and middle-income countries fell by $2.1 billion in 2025, a 25% decrease from the previous year, according to a new report by KFF and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).  Total disbursements dropped to $6.2 billion in 2025, down from $8.3 billion in 2024, marking the largest single-year decline since donor funding scale-up began and the lowest funding level since 2007, the report finds. The…

  • Untold KFF History Volume 3: The Global Media AIDS Initiative

    From Drew Altman

    For the third in his “Untold KFF History” series, KFF’s Founding President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman discusses an ambitious and relatively short-term effort, the Global Media AIDS Initiative, which was led by KFF in partnership with the United Nations and UNAIDS, and involved mounting HIV media campaigns all over the world from Russia to India, the Caribbean, Africa and more.

  • Americans May Be Smarter About Vaccines Than You Think

    From Drew Altman

    In a new column that analyzes recent KFF polling, Founding President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman concludes that only a sliver of the public hold definitive anti-science, anti-vaccine views, and are greatly outnumbered by the people who believe established science, with even more Americans stuck in a “muddled middle.” He writes, “when you see reports of social media engagement spiking about a health myth, don’t overreact. It’s more likely than not that it's a relatively…

  • Untold KFF History Volume 1: South Africa

    From Drew Altman

    As KFF approaches a leadership transition next year, Founding President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman will share a series of occasional columns about key moments in the organization's 37-year history. The first in the series recalls KFF’s (then called the Kaiser Family Foundation) decades-long commitment to South Africa during and after apartheid. Dr. Altman will continue his regular columns about health policy. “The greatest privilege of my life was to be able to work with…