A Town Hall Forum with Ambassador Deborah L. Birx June 23, 2014 Event The Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a town hall forum with Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, M.D. the new U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, in which she shared her vision for the next phase of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in supporting efforts to achieve an AIDS-free generation.
U.S. Humanitarian Assistance and Global Health Policy: Opportunities and Barriers for More Effective Coordination October 7, 2013 Issue Brief This brief presents key findings from a Kaiser Family Foundation review and analysis of the policy and financing landscape where U.S. humanitarian assistance and global health assistance meet. It also summarizes a July 2013 roundtable discussion convened by the Foundation focusing on opportunities, challenges, and potential next steps for more effective coordination between humanitarian assistance and global health programs.
Kaiser/UNAIDS Study Finds No Real Change In Donor Funding For HIV September 23, 2013 News Release This report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) evaluates international efforts to finance the response to the AIDS epidemic. The annual funding analysis finds donor governments disbursed US$7.86 billion toward the AIDS response in low-and middle-income countries in 2012, essentially unchanged from the US$7.63 billion level in 2011 after adjusting for inflation.
Mapping the Donor Landscape in Global Health (Series) August 29, 2013 Report This series of reports examines donor nations and multilateral organizations involved in addressing different global health challenges in recipient countries worldwide.
Mapping the Donor Landscape in Global Health: Family Planning and Reproductive Health January 16, 2014 Report This report maps the network of international assistance to support family planning and reproductive health in countries around the globe. The report is part of a series that examines the donor nations and multilateral organizations involved in addressing different global health challenges in recipient countries worldwide.
Donor Government Assistance for Family Planning in 2012 November 13, 2013 Report This report establishes a baseline level of donor government funding for family planning activities in 2012 that can be used to track total international assistance funding levels for family planning over time as well as commitments donor governments made at last year’s London Summit on Family Planning. It finds donor governments provided about US$900 million in bilateral funding for family planning programs in 2012, and an additional US$432 million in core contributions to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
New Interactive Tool Tracks the U.S. Global Health Budget in Real Time August 27, 2014 News Release The Kaiser Family Foundation has launched a new interactive tool designed to provide the latest data on the U.S. government’s global health budget in an easy-to-access form. The U.S. Global Health Budget Tracker lets users follow the budget from the President’s budget request through the appropriations process in Congress, as well…
New Report Examines NGO Engagement in U.S. Global Health Efforts December 15, 2014 News Release A new Kaiser Family Foundation report finds 135 different U.S.-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) received U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding in 2013 to implement U.S. global health programs on the ground. The report aims to shed light on the extent of the role of NGOs in carrying out U.S.…
Shaping the U.S. Global Health Policy Agenda: Key Considerations for the Future December 11, 2014 News Release In the latest post in the Policy Insights series, Jen Kates and Josh Michaud outline eight questions that are likely to shape the U.S. global health response in the last two years of the current presidential term and beyond. Follow Jen Kates and Josh Michaud on Twitter, and access previous columns…
Analysis Finds Funding for Malaria Is Significantly Less than Estimated Need December 8, 2014 News Release A new Kaiser Family Foundation report finds that funding for global malaria control and elimination activities has risen from US$871 million in 2005 to US$2.6 billion in 2013. However, total funding is significantly below US$5.1 billion, the goal set by the Global Malaria Action Plan, which is a framework endorsed by…