Beijing’s climate and trade pledges at the U.N. highlighted how modest moves can stand out when the United States is pulling back from global leadership.
Category: Developing Countries
China’s Small Steps Look Bigger Next to Trump’s Retreat
Beijing’s climate and trade pledges at the U.N. highlighted how modest moves can stand out when the United States is pulling back from global leadership.
China’s Small Steps Look Bigger Next to Trump’s Retreat
Beijing’s climate and trade pledges at the U.N. highlighted how modest moves can stand out when the United States is pulling back from global leadership.
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began.
Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91
His considerable influence in the French-speaking world was based on an unusual attribute: He had actually been to the revolutions he wrote about.
Trump Budget Office Is Withholding H.I.V. Funds That Congress Appropriated
Lawmakers allocated $6 billion this fiscal year for PEPFAR, the H.I.V. prevention and treatment program, but the administration has indicated it will release less than half of that.
Anne Merriman, ‘Mother of Palliative Care’ in Uganda, Dies at 90
A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.
RFK Jr. Accuses Gavi, Global Vaccine Agency, of Ignoring Science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that Gavi had “ignored the science” in immunizing children around the world.
The Evolution of Trump’s Views on Foreign Aid
The administration has gutted agencies like U.S.A.I.D., and President Trump has denigrated their work as wasteful and rife with fraud. His views on humanitarian assistance have seesawed since he entered political life.
Regulators Approve Lenacapavir for H.I.V. Prevention
The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.
Mpox Surges in Sierra Leone
West African nations are struggling to track and treat infections, and experts warn the outbreak is rapidly spreading, while the United States is cutting global vaccination efforts.
Trump Budget Eliminates Funding for Crucial Global Vaccination Programs
The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.”
Out of War’s Shadow: Vietnam on the Move
Nothing defines Vietnam more right now than the desire to be seen anew, to have the country and its people recognized for their strengths.
