U.S. Global Health Budget Figures
These figures provide a general overview of U.S. funding for global health.
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These figures provide a general overview of U.S. funding for global health.
This dashboard monitors the status of USAID tuberculosis (TB) priority countries’ progress toward global TB targets. It includes data for more than 20 countries in which USAID’s bilateral TB program currently carries out its efforts.
These global health budget summaries highlight key information about global health funding levels throughout the federal budget and appropriations process.
This resource provides an overview of where the U.S. operates bilateral global health programs by country and region.
This analysis examines the impacts of the Trump administration's foreign aid freeze on the donor landscape for global health, specifically highlighting the U.S.'s role in supporting global HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria efforts.
This Kaiser Family Foundation webinar for journalists examined President Obama's fiscal year 2015 budget request, how it will impact existing U.S. global health programs and specific countries around the globe, and how it fits into the larger foreign policy efforts of the U.S. government.
The Kaiser Family Foundation convened a public forum to take stock of the global health challenge presented by TB, to examine the limitations and challenges of current treatment options, their limitations and challenges, and to discuss the search for new and better TB drugs and other tools. The event began with a screening of a short segment of a new FRONTLINE television documentary, TB Silent Killer, which focuses on the Southern African nation of Swaziland, the country with the world's highest incidence of TB, and delivers a portrait of the people living at the pandemic's epicenter.
This report maps the network of international assistance aimed at addressing the global impact of tuberculosis (TB). 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.
After Congress provided an unprecedented level of emergency funding for Ebola in FY15 in response to the West African outbreak, beyond regular appropriations for global health programs, FY16 returned to business as usual. There was no additional emergency funding and global health amounts remained essentially flat funding compared to prior years. The FY16 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which was signed into law by the President on December 18, 2015, included an estimated $10.2 billion in funding for global health programs continuing a trend of essentially flat funding since FY10.
In this article for The Lancet, KFF's Jennifer Kates and 19 co-authors examine trends in the provision and receipt of development assistance for health (DAH), particularly for the G20 countries. The article looks at key questions facing leaders of the G20 countries, including how to best focus DAH for equitable health gains, how to deliver DAH to strengthen health systems, and how to support domestic resource mobilization and tranformative partnerships for sustainable impact.
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