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US funding cuts threaten global health response, WHO chief warns

·February 13, 2025·2 min read

In a media briefing on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the consequences of funding suspensions, including disruptions to HIV treatment, setbacks in polio eradication and limited resources for responding to mpox epidemics in Africa. “The suspension of funding to PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, caused...

US aid funding cuts put HIV prevention at risk, warns UNAIDS

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·February 9, 2025·2 min read

The waiver allows the continuation or resumption of “life-saving humanitarian assistance” including HIV treatment. That means 20 million people living with HIV and whose medication is funded by the US can continue to receive treatment. “That’s 20 million out of the 30 million people living with HIV in the world,” said...

US funding pause leaves millions ‘in jeopardy’, insist UN humanitarians

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·February 5, 2025·4 min read

The development follows the pause announced to billions of dollars of funding on 24 January by the US administration affecting “nearly all US foreign aid programmes, pending a 90-day review”, said Pio Smith from the UN’s sexual reproductive health agency, UNFPA, briefing journalists in Geneva. ‘Unwavering commitment’ to serve people...

UNAIDS welcomes US decision to keep funding life-saving HIV treatment

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·January 29, 2025·2 min read

The move from the UN agency dedicated to ending the disease came in response to an immediate 90-day funding pause for all foreign assistance laid out in an executive order by President Trump, including the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). PEPFAR is the world’s leading HIV initiative...

UNHCR secures record $1.5 billion in early funding for 2025

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·December 3, 2024·2 min read

The package includes $1.143 billion from donor governments along with a commitment of $355 million from UNHCR’s private sector National partners. This provides the agency with 15 percent of its anticipated needs for the coming year. “We live in a world ravaged by brutal and seemingly endless conflicts that tear...

Exert more pressure to dry up funding for Houthi militias, Yemeni leader tells UN

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·September 27, 2024·2 min read

“A collective approach is necessary to assist the Yemeni Government to reinforce its institutional capabilities,” its capacity to address the ongoing economic crisis and protect against threats to international navigation,” Rashad Mohammed Al-Alimi told world leaders at the UN General Assembly’s annual high-level meeting. Focusing largely on what he saw...

COP28: Bring the vulnerable to ‘front of the line’ for climate funding

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·December 4, 2023·6 min read

Among them is young Senegalese singer and rapper Oumy Gueye, who goes by OMG and was triggered to embrace climate action when her grandparents’ home in Bargny east of the Senegalese capital Dakar was destroyed by rising seas. She has been collaborating with UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA to advocate for...

Funding shortfall puts WFP operations in Chad at risk

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·November 27, 2023·1 min read

The warning comes as aid agencies scramble to respond to a fresh wave of displacement sparked by the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan, with reports of mass killings, rapes and widespread destruction. The crisis is occurring amid the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid...

World News in Brief: ‘Outrage’ over Black Sea attack, funding pledge to alleviate El Niño, breast cancer alert

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·November 13, 2023·2 min read

Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown said in a statement that Wednesday’s attack came on the heels of a series of assaults that killed and inured civilians, destroyed grain supplies and damaged the historic Fine Arts Museum in the Ukrainian port city. “I share my condolences with the family of the killed...

Eastern DRC: UN food aid hangs in the balance amid severe funding crunch

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·August 23, 2023·1 min read

The situation is particularly alarming in the east, where malnutrition has taken hold among 4.4 million people, exacerbated by compromised health services, lack of clean water, and an uptick in gender-based violence, highlighted Peter Musoko, WFP Country Director, during a press briefing in Geneva. “In my conversations with those displaced...

Funding ‘simply not enough’ for Rohingya refugees, UN agencies report

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·July 21, 2023·2 min read

In March, the value of the food vouchers for camp residents was reduced from $12 per person per month to $10, and in June, to just $8; the equivalent of 27 cents a day. “The ration cuts are our last resort. Many donors have stepped forward with funding but what...

Cyclone Mocha: urgent funding needed as hunger, diseases loom

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·May 23, 2023·3 min read

In Myanmar, the UN appealed on Tuesday for $333 million to assist 1.6 million of the most vulnerable people, many of whom have lost their homes as the cyclone hit the west of the country over a week ago. The UN’s top aid official in the country, Ramanathan Balakrishnan, told...