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This policy watch provides an overview of the Trump administration's executive order to pause all foreign aid programs, including for global health, and related actions to date.
This post looks at federal government databases with key health data that went offline on Jan. 31, 2025, including several related to HIV, some of which had returned by Feb. 2, 2025. It briefly describing the affected databases, which include widely used, large-scale national health surveys, indices, and data dashboards, that inform research, policy making, and media coverage about health care and public health.
This updated fact sheet examines the U.S. role in the Global Fund, an independent, multilateral financing entity that raises significant new resources to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria in low- and middle- income countries.
In this viewpoint article in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, KFF's Jennifer Kates and co-authors Brian Honermann and Gregorio Millett of amfAR explore the implications of shifts in the global economic and political environment for the future of PEPFAR, the U.S government's global HIV program created under President George W. Bush and credited with changing the trajectory of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
This issue brief identifies options and issues for PEPFAR to consider should it institute a new co-financing policy to encourage increased domestic resource mobilization from countries.
This analysis examines differences in HIV outcomes by urban/rural residence, wealth quintile, sex, and age in 15 PEPFAR countries and finds that HIV equity gaps were found for some, but not all, subpopulation groups.
This dashboard monitors progress being made to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in countries where PEPFAR operates. It includes data for 54 countries and tracks progress against 6 different indicators.
The news today about the efficacy of a new long-acting injectable PrEP, the second such breakthrough announcement in recent months, is nothing short of groundbreaking.
This resource provides an overview of where the U.S. operates bilateral global health programs by country and region.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations approved the FY 2025 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs) appropriations bill, accompanying report, and amendments on July 25, 2024. The SFOPs bill includes funding for U.S. global health programs at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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