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KFF Tracker: America First MOU Bilateral Global Health Agreements

On September 18, 2025, the U.S. government released its new America First Global Health Strategy, which details how the U.S. will engage in global health efforts moving forward. As part of this new strategy, the U.S. has announced that it will be establishing bilateral health cooperation agreements with countries that receive U.S. global health assistance. This tracker provides an overview of Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), between the U.S. and partner countries, signed to date. The tracker will be updated as needed.

KFF Health Tracking Poll: Public Views on Foreign Aid and Global Health Spending

The Trump Administration’s Latest Expansion of the Mexico City Policy: A Funding Analysis

The Mexico City Policy: An Explainer

Questions for the America First Global Health Strategy

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Global Health Aid Cuts

This collection of resources chronicles what recent Trump administration global health aid cuts mean for the future of global health programs and the people who rely on them.

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The U.S. Government and Global Health

In this Health Policy 101 chapter, investigate the U.S. role in global health, including the major initiatives the United States supports, funding levels, and agencies involved in implementing program area efforts.

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Global Health Trackers

U.S. Global Health Budget Tracker

This tracker provides regularly updated information on U.S. government funding for global health. It includes historical trends and tracks funding levels for U.S. global health efforts through bilateral and multilateral contributions and by program area and agency.

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  • Analysis Finds Funding for Malaria Is Significantly Less than Estimated Need

    News Release

    A new Kaiser Family Foundation report finds that funding for global malaria control and elimination activities has risen from US$871 million in 2005 to US$2.6 billion in 2013. However, total funding is significantly below US$5.1 billion, the goal set by the Global Malaria Action Plan, which is a framework endorsed by world leaders in 2008 to reach global malaria reduction targets. Additionally, support for malaria research and development (R&D) activities in 2013 was estimated to be…

  • New Report Examines NGO Engagement in U.S. Global Health Efforts

    News Release

    A new Kaiser Family Foundation report finds 135 different U.S.-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) received U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding in 2013 to implement U.S. global health programs on the ground. The report aims to shed light on the extent of the role of NGOs in carrying out U.S. global health programs. Ninety-one percent of the funding went to 20 NGOs. NGOs received more than a third of the agency's global health spending and…

  • Analysis: Global Health Funding in the FY15 Omnibus Appropriations Act 

    News Release

    The FY15 Omnibus Appropriations Act contains $5.4 billion in emergency funding to address the Ebola crisis – a significant increase in total U.S. support for global health. Aside from the additional funding for Ebola, global health funding remained essentially flat at $9.2 billion, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation funding analysis. Of the total emergency funding to respond to Ebola, which is outside the budget caps for discretionary spending, $3.7 billion is specifically for…

  • 2010 Survey of Americans on the U.S. Role in Global Health

    Poll Finding

    This survey is the third in a series by the Foundation that aims to illuminate the American public’s views and knowledge of U.S. efforts to improve health for people in developing countries. The survey examines perceptions about foreign aid in general and assistance for health specifically, including the public's priorities for international health assistance, perceptions of progress in improving health abroad, sources of news and information on global health issues, and the relationship between positive…

  • The U.S. Global Health Initiative’s Women, Girls, and Gender Equality Principle: A Roundtable Discussion

    Issue Brief

    This document summarizes the discussion of a roundtable that took place at the Foundation in November 2010 examining the women, girls and gender equality principle of the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI). This principle, the first of seven core principles of the GHI, aims to sharpen the focus on women and girls across U.S. government global health efforts. The roundtable included experts from a variety of organizations, including officials from the U.S. government, and gender…

  • Mapping the United States Government Engagement in Global Public Health

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    This background report lays out the United States government’s engagement in global health activities in order to provide a basis for analysis and to help decision makers understand the scope and organization of programs, policies, authorities, funding and coordinating mechanisms that comprise U.S. support for public health abroad. It provides a more detailed look at some of the research conducted for the Foundation's earlier report, The U.S. Government’s Global Health Policy Architecture: Structure, Programs and Funding.…

  • What’s Next for U.S. Global Health Diplomacy? A Town Hall Forum with Ambassador Eric Goosby

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    At 9:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 28, the Kaiser Family Foundation will host a town hall-style forum with Ambassador Eric Goosby, the newly named head of the State Department's new Office of Global Health Diplomacy as well as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, to explore the goals and objectives of the new office. The office is intended to guide diplomatic efforts to advance the United States' global health mission to improve and save lives and…