The global economic crisis damaged efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, most of which involve health problems or address policy areas affecting health. The year ended with the ...

Ridden Nation 1 deaths per 1,000 births. Decades of conflict have severely impacted its healthcare infrastructure, making ...

Global health experts have been left concerned after President Donald Trump made cuts to the United States Agency for ...

"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest ...

The Boston-based global public health firm relies on the USAID’s foreign assistance, accounting for 63% of its annual funding ...

Many regard America’s global health work as smart diplomacy ... to further vaccine programs that save lives, and to tackle issues like maternal mortality and Alzheimer’s disease that affect ...

"Withdrawing from the WHO leaves a gap in global health leadership that will ... newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF ...

Who’s budget relies heavily on voluntary contributions, making it difficult to prioritize global health issues. The US is followed by major donors like the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli has covered H.I.V., malaria and other global health problems for more than 20 years. Funds from the world’s richest nation once flowed from the largest ...

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.” ...

In one of his first presidential actions on Monday, President Trump issued an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.