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  • Atención de salud en Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos: una revisión, a seis meses de las tormentas (Informe)

    Issue Brief

    Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos (USVI) sufrieron daños significativos en su infraestructura y sistemas de salud a causa del impacto de los huracanes Irma y María en septiembre de 2017. Basándose en entrevistas con residentes, partes interesadas clave, y en informes públicos, este informe proporciona una visión general del estado de los esfuerzos de recuperación, a seis meses de las tormentas, con un enfoque en los sistemas de atención médica.

  • The USG International Family Planning Landscape: Defining Approaches to Address Uncertainties in Funding and Programming – Discussion Summary

    Issue Brief

    This brief summarizes a discussion held in January 2018 to discuss international family planning efforts in the context of funding and policy uncertainty. Convened by the Center for Global Development and the Kaiser Family Foundation, the discussion brought together a range of stakeholders including US government officials, other donors and international organizations, NGOs, and the private sector.

  • Health Care in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands: A Six-Month Check-Up After the Storms (Report)

    Issue Brief

    Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands suffered significant damage to their infrastructure and health care systems from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017. Drawing on interviews with residents and key stakeholders as well as public reports, this brief provides an overview of the status of the recovery efforts six months after the storms, with a focus on the health care systems.

  • Global HIV/AIDS Financing Amidst Uncertainty

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      On Wednesday, April 18, 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Global Health Policy Center co-hosted a public discussion on the current state of financing for the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The event also included the launch of the latest global health financing analysis by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). IHME’s latest analysis features a special focus on the past 20 years…

  • President Signs FY18 Omnibus Bill

    Fact Sheet

    On March 23, 2018, the President signed the FY 2018 Omnibus bill, which provides funding for the U.S. government through the rest of the 2018 fiscal year including for U.S. global health programs. Key highlights from the bills are as follows (see table for additional detail): Funding provided to the State Department and USAID through the Global Health Programs (GHP) account, which represents the bulk of global health assistance, totaled $8.7 billion, essentially flat compared…

  • KFF Briefing Examines Progress and Remaining Challenges for the Health Care Systems in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands Six Months After Hurricanes Irma and Maria

    News Release

    Six months after hurricanes Irma and Maria made landfall across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, local officials described progress but also a long road to full recovery of the U.S. territories’ health care systems, economies and infrastructure during a public briefing Monday at the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Washington D.C. offices. An archived webcast of the 90-minute briefing on the status of the recovery on the islands, with a focus on their health care systems,…

  • White House Releases FY 2019 Budget Request

    Fact Sheet

    The White House released its FY 2019 budget request to Congress on February 12, 2018, which includes significant cuts to global health programs compared to FY 2017 enacted levels (the overall levels in the request are similar to the FY 2018 budget request). Key highlights are as follows (see table for additional detail): Funding provided to the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) (through the Global Health Programs account), which represents the…

  • How Are Health Centers Responding to the Funding Delay?

    Fact Sheet

    Community health centers see over 25 million patients in medically underserved rural and urban areas throughout the country. A key source of their federal funding expired September 30, 2017. This fact sheet looks at how health centers are responding to the funding delay and uncertainty.

  • U.S. Global Health Policy One Year In to the Trump Administration

    News Release

    A new Kaiser Family Foundation issue brief assessing global health policy one year after President Trump took office finds half of Americans (54%) say they want the U.S. to play a major or leading role in improving health for people in developing countries, though support for such engagement is strongest among Democrats (73%) and lower among independents (47%) and Republicans (49%). The brief identifies a mix of challenges to U.S. global health policy, some of which pre-dated President Trump…

  • A Check Up on U.S. Global Health Policy, After One Year of the Trump Administration

    Issue Brief

    In this brief, we take stock of the U.S. global health response on the occasion of one year of the Trump Presidency and look ahead to the global health policy issues that are likely to be front and center in the coming months and years. We include a discussion of new KFF polling data (from January 2018) to provide an updated assessment of U.S. public support for global health programs.