USG Programs

This tracker provides a listing of global health-related legislation introduced in the current Congress.

This literature review identifies studies examining the impact of the Mexico City Policy, from 2001 to the present, with particular focus on capturing recent studies assessing the policy under the Trump administration.

This dashboard monitors the status of the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative’s (PMI) partner countries’ progress toward global malaria targets.

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.

This fact sheet provides an overview of U.S. government global health policy and engagement.

Explore an overview of the Mexico City Policy, which, when last in effect, required foreign NGOs to certify that they would 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 most U.S. government global health assistance.

The U.S. government is the largest donor to global health in the world. This fact sheet breaks down the U.S. global health budget by program area: HIV/PEPFAR; tuberculosis; malaria/the President’s Malaria Initiative; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; maternal & child health; nutrition; family planning & reproductive health; global health security; and neglected tropical diseases.

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 analysis outlines the potential reach of a prominent conservative proposal — widely seen as a blueprint for another Trump administration — that recommends expanding the Mexico City Policy to include virtually all U.S. foreign assistance. It looks at the amount of funding, the number of organizations, the range of foreign assistance sectors, and other variables that could be affected should the proposal be implemented.

This brief offers an overview of the new multilateral global health financing mechanism known as the Pandemic Fund, which is housed at the World Bank. The brief reviews the evolution of the Fund, its current financial status and donors, U.S. engagement, and policy issues going forward.