US EditionAfrica: WHO Issues Guidance to Address Drastic Global Health Financing Cuts
WHO guidance supports LMICs facing 30-40% external health aid cuts projected for 2025, with some critical services reduced by up to 70%, urging efficient and equitable health spending.
- This year, the World Health Organization released new guidance titled `Responding to the health financing emergency: immediate measures and longer-term shifts` to help countries better mobilize, allocate, prioritize and use funds amid sudden aid cuts.
- This year's funding cuts have compounded years of persistent health financing challenges including rising debt, inflation and heavy reliance on external aid.
- To boost efficiency and equity, the guidance urges prioritizing services for the poorest, protecting health budgets, integrating disease-specific services into primary health care, and using health technology assessments while emphasizing universal health coverage.
- More than 50 countries have reported job losses among health workers, while Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana increased health funding, with Nigeria adding $200 million and Ghana raising its budget 60%.
- WHO and partners commit technical support, including the UHC Knowledge Hub launching in December 2025, as WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, `'Sudden and unplanned cuts to aid have hit many countries hard, costing lives and jeopardizing hard-won health gains.
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Following on from the United States, the European Commission called for an end to funding for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with the objective of strengthening the Union's investment and influence in areas that it considers more strategic.
The World Health Organization warned for months that the world is facing a global emergency in the financing of health in the context of drastic reductions in international assistance. According to WHO, over 70% of countries with low and medium income are already facing serious health problems.
Africa: WHO Issues Guidance to Address Drastic Global Health Financing Cuts
Press Release - The World Health Organization (WHO) today released new guidance for countries on ways to counter the immediate and long-term effects of sudden and severe cuts to external funding, which are disrupting the delivery of essential health services in many countries.
These guidelines propose a series of measures to cushion sudden financial shocks and build more autonomous and resilient financing. “Sudden and unexpected aid cuts have hit many countries hard, costing lives and jeopardizing hard-won health gains,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General […]
"The world faces a global emergency for health financing which requires coordinated and urgent action," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned at a meeting of the African Union Member States in Geneva. WHO has today issued a set of recommendations to combat immediate and long-term short-term effects on international assistance, which seriously damaged basic health services in many regions. The United States, traditionally the wor…
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