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A GBD 2023 analysis counts the global health workforce by sex for the first time, and finds it nearly tripled since 1990 — yet still falls tens of millions of workers short of universal health coverage.
Two WHO-endorsed shots are now available, but a new analysis argues the harder problem is financing them in the lowest-income, highest-burden countries. Nigerian rollout data shows demand outpacing readiness.
A modelling study finds South Africa's selective birth-dose policy is efficient per infection averted, but giving every newborn a dose would prevent the most disease and be the most cost-effective overall.
Gavi is funding a standing mpox vaccine stockpile, coordinated by the same group that manages emergency supplies for cholera, yellow fever and Ebola, to avoid repeating the 2022 access gap.
The final rule raises operating payment rates 2.4% and directs about $2.9 billion more to acute-care hospitals in the year from 1 October 2026. Hospital groups called the increase too low.
Twenty-two years of national data show income-related inequities in care use narrowing, and copayment increases for higher earners not reversing that. Services carrying extra user charges are the outlier.
Developing countries paid a record US$1.4 trillion in debt service in 2023. A 105-country study finds debt servicing nudges the health-financing mix toward out-of-pocket, but only modestly.
The estimate covers 2000 to 2023 and 108 countries. It is a counterfactual model, not a measured saving, and it lands as the US and other donors debate cutting the disease-specific funding it credits.
The estimate covers only populations in humanitarian need across Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Niger and Nigeria — and it assumes nothing replaces the lost money.
The Eighth Replenishment closed at US$12.64 billion against the US$18 billion its own Investment Case tied to 23 million lives saved and 400 million infections prevented by 2029.
WHO and the World Bank put the global service coverage index at 71, up from 54 in 2000. On current trends it reaches only 74 by 2030.
WHO's World malaria report counts 282 million cases and 610,000 deaths for 2024. The US$3.9 billion spent was under half the US$9.3 billion the global strategy called for.
A national pharmaceutical database analysis found out-of-pocket purchases accounted for 78-86% of contraceptive use, with emergency contraception priced up to 25 times higher than the insured rate.
WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2025 counts 10.7 million people ill and over 1.2 million dead last year. Available funding is US$5.9 billion against a US$22 billion annual target.
Across 165 clinics in four African countries, HIV testing fell by up to 35% and treatment starts by up to 32%. Most services had not returned to baseline two months after the orders were lifted.
The World Health Assembly approved US$6.2 billion for 2026-2027 after trimming the base to US$4.27 billion. The notified US withdrawal cut the assessments available for it by US$311.1 million.