The Trump administration is making sweeping cuts to global health funding in both its rescission package and its fiscal year 2026 budget request. This includes zeroing out funding for Gavi, and cuts to U.S. global AIDS initiative PEPFAR and the President’s Malaria Initiative. It also slashes support for family planning, reproductive health, neglected tropical diseases, and nonemergency nutrition.
This comes in the wake of a months-long dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, mass layoff of global health staff, and slashing of the majority of programs.
Overall, the White House is asking the U.S. Congress to rescind $9.4 billion in previously enacted funding. This includes $900 million for global health programs, including $400 million for the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, according to Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington.
About the author
Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
