The Stop TB Partnership will be tightening its belt after losing funding from its biggest donor, the United States.
The Stop TB Partnership is a U.N.-hosted entity that serves as a leading voice in the fight to end tuberculosis, with partners from different parts of the world, including governments, civil society, and community-based organizations. It coordinates global advocacy in fighting TB, and funds the work of CSOs and groups innovating and providing access to services for people living with the disease. It also facilitates global access to TB diagnostics and drugs through its Global Drug Facility.
The organization, whose secretariat is based in Geneva, receives about half of its funding from the U.S. government. It was forced to suspend its grant funding to civil society organizations in the wake of the U.S. aid suspension. It was hoping funding would resume following the 90-day USAID review. But on Feb. 27, it received a termination notice — one of the nearly 10,000 funding awards the U.S. government decided to cut last week — effectively losing roughly $35 million.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
