Read the study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(26)00008-2/fulltext
Text below thanks to Global Health Now
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If current trends in global health funding cuts continue, 9.4 million excess deaths will occur by 2030, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health yesterday. That’s the “mild” scenario.
Worst case: A “severe” scenario based on even greater funding cuts would lead to 22.6 million additional deaths by 2030, per Barcelona Institute for Global Health researchers and colleagues.
What’s at stake? HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, as well as hunger, may resurge across the globe, The Washington Post reports (gift link).
“It is the dismantling of an architecture that took 80 years to build,” said Rockefeller Foundation President and former USAID chief Rajiv Shah. “The scale of the cuts and the scale of the reduction far outstrip the scale of philanthropy to step in and solve the problem.”
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HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org