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‘Utterly devastating’: Global health groups left reeling as European countries slash foreign aid

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Some of Europe ’s biggest global health funders are slashing their aid budgets, which health groups fear could spell catastrophe for countries reliant on foreign cash to combat malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and emerging threats.

Global health groups still don’t know exactly which programmes are on the chopping block.

But they say the recent European cuts are painful given the US has taken an axe to its own foreign assistance.

The UK has already committed funding to multilateral groups like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria , as well as climate change-related initiatives.

The cuts from the US and Europe could reshape the global aid system, says Jesper Sundewall , an associate professor of global health systems at Lund University in Sweden .

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