Global health

Modest results from WHO’s first-ever Gavi-style replenishment

While the World Health Organisation is billing its first-ever replenishment round as a success, the numbers paint a more dismal picture. WHO still lacks over USD 3 billion for its next four-year cycle. Daniel Thornton, recruited from Gavi to lead the operation, describes the result so far as “a glass half full.” UPDATED

News November 26, 2024

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UNFPA braces for Trump II, scant hope for increased European funding this time

Europe - led by Nordic donors - increased support for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) by 20 per cent to...

News November 19, 2024

Soul searching at the World Bank about how to finance response to the next pandemic

During the covid pandemic, the World Bank, bound by its country-based model, was unable to put its considerable...

News October 24, 2024

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Gavi asks donors to transfer remaining billions in unspent covid money to its next funding period

To secure a record-high budget for the next five years, the vaccine alliance Gavi needs USD 9 billion...

News October 18, 2024

In the absence of the World Bank, Gavi and DFIs create day zero pandemic fund

The World Bank has been singled out as the obvious place to house a day zero financing facility for a...

News September 05, 2024

Gavi’s new CEO asks donors for USD 9 billion, promises to ‘democratise’ organisational culture

Sania Nishtar, the former Pakistani senator who took the helm of the Gavi vaccine alliance two months...

News June 21, 2024

Swedish crack in bedrock of Nordic support to UN agency on sexual health

Changing political winds in Sweden, traditionally a global leader in sexual and reproductive health and...

News April 12, 2024

Anders Nordström calls for fewer global health agencies and a bigger role for African actors

A key lesson of the COVID pandemic is that the global health architecture needs to be modernised and...

News April 03, 2024

What global health donors should do

Global health institutions like Gavi and the Global Fund “share a fundamental design flaw - they were...

News February 19, 2024

Transition to sunset: the future of foreign aid for basic health services in Africa

Global health institutions, controlled by a small group of countries and private foundations, have a...

Opinion February 19, 2024

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