USAID's 'final mission' has just ended. Now what?
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More than 1 billion people are living with a mental health disorder
2 September 2025Yet governments on average are spending just around 2% of their budgets on mental health services, the same since 2017, and the median number of mental health specialists is 13.5 per 100,000 people.
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2 September 2025The elimination of the U.S. aid agency provides some new opportunities, but only for a few.
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2 September 2025Sidi Ould Tah takes over the African Development Bank presidency with promises of reform, new partnerships, and a focus on jobs, even as the bank confronts tight budgets and a looming African Development Fund replenishment.
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Trump's $5B 'pocket rescission' escalates foreign aid funding fight
29 August 2025On Friday, the Trump administration proposed another $5 billion cut to foreign aid spending. It might not matter if Congress approves or not.
After the aid cuts: What's next for INGOs?
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28 August 2025Malawi was at the forefront of HIV prevention efforts before Washington cut global aid. Now officials are struggling to revive traditional prevention services and introduce new innovations.
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Now is the moment to eliminate a human-made health challenge: Trans fat
3 September 2025Opinion: Ahead of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases, Austria, Norway, Oman, Singapore, and WHO are calling for the global scale-up of efforts to eliminate human-made trans fat from manufactured foods.