No disease is deadlier in Africa than malaria. Trump's US aid cuts weaken the fight against it

Abuja administration begins distribution of free malaria drugs, kits

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Foreign aid cuts to life-saving programs exposes US to global health threats, experts say

Malaria is rare in the US for now."Malaria is a peculiar disease, says Dr. Michael Adekunle Charles, CEO of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership to End Malaria. It's a disease that is preventable, that is treatable, that is curable.Yet, the travel-related disease strikes more than 200 million people a year. Nearly 600,000 of those infections are fatal.While malaria was declared largely eradicated in the U.S. decades ago, public health experts warn …

‘No one can fill that gap’: Why a global health leader sees U.S. funding as irreplaceable

CEO of Wellcome Trust says global health organizations must learn to live with less, that philanthropy can't replace cuts to USAID and other expenditures.

The cuts decided by the Trump administration in foreign financial aid provided by the US could cost the lives of millions of people around the world, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned on Monday, according to AFP, quoted by Agerpres.

In the fight against AIDS alone, American decisions "could cancel 20 years of progress, resulting in more than 10 million additional cases of HIV and 3 million deaths," according to the head of the organization.

To cut overseas aid is a moral failing and a false economy

We undoubtedly live in a volatile, unstable world. The existential threat of climate change is affecting each and every one of us at varying levels. We live in a global economy stacked in the favour of the few, at the expense of the many, and the cos...