Millions of people worldwide are likely to lose access to anti HIV drugs, and thousands more people could die, after the US cut project funding.
- Professor in Global Development, SOAS, University of London
Restrictions on US aid is likely to drive up illegal abortions and maternal deaths.
Many asylum applications are rejected on grounds that dismiss the dire situations in applicants’ countries of origin.
Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, Africa has slipped from its precarious but tangible place in UK political discourse.
Upwards of 60% of the world needs to be vaccinated to suppress COVID-19 – even with an extra billion doses, that target looks very far away.
The global vaccine rollout has not been free from geopolitical rivalries and point-scoring.
Boris Johnson has announced the UK’s Department for International Development will merge with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Many leaders before her have sought to make aid spending all about their own agendas – but there’s a new element in this case.
In the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation annual letter, published recently, Bill Gates declared “by 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world”. Pointing to the fact that during the…
The G20 has been dominated by Syria, tax reform, and playground infighting among world leaders. But where is the talk of ending hunger, eradicating diseases or cancelling debts? Back in 2005, as the G8…
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