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On June 26, the Kaiser Family Foundation held a briefing examining the role and policies of the U.S. government and faith-based organizations in helping children orphaned or made vulnerable by the AIDS epidemic.
With ongoing questions about future U.S. support for multilateral health efforts as well as important markers on the near horizon, including donor replenishment conferences for both the Global Fund and Gavi within the next two years, this brief highlights five key facts about U.S. engagement with multilateral global health organizations.
This analysis assesses the potential reach of the latest expansion of the Mexico City Policy, which is now part of the Promoting Human Flourishing in Foreign Assistance (PHFFA) Policy.
This forum featuring the South African Minister of Health, The Hon. Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, examines the South African government's efforts to more effectively manage the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as other systems-wide management and financing reforms underway to achieve greater affordability, improved efficiency and better health outcomes. The forum was co-sponsored by the Henry J.
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.
This analysis examines PEPFAR spending and HIV viral suppression rates in 22 countries from 2018–2023 to help identify which investments most effectively drive HIV outcomes and inform future directions.
Explore an overview of the Mexico City Policy, which, when in effect, requires foreign NGOs to certify that they will not “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” using funds from any source (including non-U.S. funds) as a condition for receiving U.S. government global health assistance.
This report examines the United States' response to HIV over the last 30 years compared to that of other high-income countries. The report compares the U.S. to seven other similarly situated nations – Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom – noting patterns and themes that have emerged from their experiences.
This past summer, the United States government’s global HIV/AIDS program was reauthorized and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data indicating that the epidemic at home was worse than previously thought.
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.
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