"The United States has made the deepest cuts, about US$9 billion, after the start of the year, when the administration of US President Donald Trump slashed funding to the US Agency for International Development. One estimate found that, by 2030, these cuts could lead to 14 million deaths globally. The United States has also pulled out of the World Health Organization (WHO), withdrawing funding that represented around one-fifth of the $6.7-billion programme budget in 2022-23."
"In Jordan, we lost lives immediately when health care in hospitals stopped abruptly," says Haitham Bashier, director of the Public Health Emergency Management Centre in Amman. At the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, a regional public-health organization in Jordan, "60% of our funding for health projects came from US-based funds. Now it's gone," Bashier told Nature at the summit. However, Bashier also said the cuts are "a rare opportunity to reimagine how the global health ecosystem functions"."
International funding for health services in low- and middle-income countries has fallen steeply and consistently since 2021. The United States cut roughly US$9 billion after slashing funding to USAID and could withdraw funding that previously covered about one-fifth of WHO's programme budget, contributing to estimates of up to 14 million additional deaths globally by 2030. France, Germany and the United Kingdom are also reducing aid. In Jordan, abrupt funding losses halted hospital care and removed 60% of some health-project budgets. Some leaders see the cuts as an opportunity to redesign the global-health financing model and encourage countries to assume greater control of their own health costs.
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