Marwin Meier

What remains of #HumanitarianAid?

The focus of this months digital magazine on development cooperation:
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Africa CDC's bold communiqué from Addis (Feb '26): Country ownership + sovereignty at the heart of reformed global health! #UHC/#PHC foundation, empowered regions (Africa/PAHO/ECDC), fair burden-sharing. South-led reform momentum!
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#GlobalHealthReform #AfricaCDC

Exciting #HIV breakthrough: Scientists "trip" latent virus to trigger immune sensors, offering hope for a functional cure. But: #Innovation needs equitable access & funding! IHPn 869, p32:
www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u...
h/t @ihpnetwork.bsky.social #HIVcure #GlobalHealth

Wow! Mining and... mining the bodies of unsuspecting citizens for health-data. Hoping that the govt of Zambia won't allow this! 🙈

After US aid cuts, South Africa’s HIV response strains to hold the line The withdrawal of U.S. support has shuttered community clinics, strained public hospitals, and forced South Africa to rethink how it funds HIV care. But one year after USAID's collapse, South Africa i...

U.S. #FundingCuts have "disrupted care for hundreds of thousands in #SouthAfrica’s #HIV response. As the country’s government vows the program won’t collapse, front-line workers warn the fragile thread holding patients together is fraying fast."
www.devex.com/news/after-u...

54th Global Fund Board meeting: the crossroads is drawing closer Dear subscribers, The 54th Global Fund Board meeting, held in Geneva on 12–13 February 2026, did more than adjust priorities: it exposed a political shift. The Global Fund is entering a phase where th...

On the #GFATM board meetings: "Communities are repeatedly described as being “at the centre,” yet their sustainability is increasingly conditioned on integration and domestic financing- approaches that, in many contexts, do not work for key populations."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/54th-g...

The Liar's Dividend : How AI Is Compromising Humanitarian Space EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In Sudan, AI-generated audio, video, and images are being weaponised by both sides of the conflict. A September 2025 CDAC Network report found that "false narratives have directly le...

‼️"Both sides in #Sudan exploit this "liar's dividend," claiming real recordings are AI-generated to escape accountability. This may be the more corrosive threat: not that we can't trust what's fake, but that we're losing the ability to trust what's real."🙈
www.linkedin.com/pulse/liars-...

How a UN expert proved the RSF committed genocide in Sudan's el-Fasher Mona Rishmawi, member of the UN fact-finding mission on Sudan, urges a halt to arms supplies to Rapid Support Forces

How a UN expert proved the #RSF committed #genocide in Sudan's el-Fasher -

Mona Rishmawi, member of the UN fact-finding mission on #Sudan, urges a halt to arms supplies to Rapid Support Forces:
www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-u...

#KeepEyesOnSudan #KeepEyesOnDarfur

Viral Child Soldiers on TikTok: The ‘Disney Stars’ of Sudan’s Civil War - bellingcat To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcat’s WhatsApp channel here. You can read an Arabic version of this investigation on Radio Dabanga’s site here. Child soldiers linked to Su...

"Child soldier experts told Bellingcat that the visibility and popularity of this content, which portrays fighting as normal, celebrated and aspirational, could lead to the recruitment of more young people in the conflict."
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...
#SudanWar #ChildSoldiers #KeepEyesOnSudan

Can digital cash transfers serve those in active conflict zones? Digital cash transfers can be delivered even in active conflict settings like Sudan and can significantly protect vulnerable households – especially in the most insecure areas – from worsening food in...

Digital #CashTransfers can still reach people in active conflict, with evidence from #Sudan showing benefits for food security in highly insecure areas. But don't be too stingy for max effect! 💰📱💥🌍🥖✨

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#HumanitarianAid #Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #CashAssistance #CashTransfers

The expanded Global Gag Rule endangers global health by blocking #HIV & #SRHR services. Germany must boost feminist, multilateral funding to protect vulnerable groups!
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@actionagainstaids.bsky.social Position paper: www.aids-kampagne.de/aktuelles/20...

#GlobalHealth #GlobalGagRule #FeministPolicy

A rare chronicle of war, survival and devastation in Darfur – in pictures Images taken by the French humanitarian Jérôme Tubiana document the shifting patterns of a gruelling conflict that shows no sign of abating

Powerful images from #Sudan!
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#KeepEyesOnSudan #KeepEyesOnDarfur

When Will Women Be Considered Good Enough? The Race to Lead the UN - PassBlue When Will Women Be Considered Good Enough? The Race to Lead the UN - PassBlue

Women must be “more than qualified” for UN Secretary General race, despite matching men's experience. We need feminist leadership for global health, equity & crises. passblue.com/2026/02/10/w... #UN #GlobalHealth #GenderEquality

#AidCuts expose “rented outcomes” in global health: services, data systems and training pipelines vanish when external money goes, revealing how little was domestically owned or sustainably financed (p.24). #HealthSystems @ihpnetwork.bsky.social: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletters/...

Abigael ist weggelaufen, um der #Frühverheiratung und weiblicher Genitalverstümmelung #FGM zu entkommen.
Heute geht sie mit der Unterstützung von World Vision in eine Schule in #Kenia.
„Hier habe ich mehr als #Bildung gefunden. Ich habe #Liebe gefunden – und mich zum ersten Mal sicher gefühlt.“

Where is HIV prevention drug lenacapavir in ‘America First’ health deals? Where is HIV prevention drug lenacapavir in ‘America First’ health deals?

Opinion: Omitting HIV prevention targets from these deals will be devastating to the affordability and scale-up of the drug lenacapavir. African leaders can change that.

The Impact of Climate Change on Maternal and Child Nutrition. A global evidence review The climate crisis and child malnutrition are inextricably linked.

🌍 Critical @unicef.org report on how climate change threatens maternal and child nutrition worldwide.

Global evidence review: knowledge.unicef.org/child-nutrit...
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#ClimateChange #ChildNutrition #MaternalHealth #UNICEF #GlobalHealth

One Year Post-USAID, Global Health Funding Stuck in Limbo  | Think Global Health End-of-year estimates convey how much global health funding changed in 2025

Yip - thus in the study, several scenarios are calculated and, depending on the extent of the ODA cuts, 9.4 to 22.6 million deaths are projected, including 2.5 to 5.4 million children under five years of age.
See also a more political analysis from earlier: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/one-...

'Budget adjustments' are political choices - always. How money get's spend is a policy decision and the message from donors is: We can't afford our charity towards you LMICs anymore, as we need to think of our own defence in this new insecure world (see UK). T'was never solidarity - sad to say!

Impact of two decades of humanitarian and development assistance and the projected mortality consequences of current defunding to 2030: retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis ODA funding has played a decisive role in reducing preventable mortality across LMICs over the past two decades, and the abrupt withdrawal of this support threatens to cause millions of avoidable deat...

Global #AidCuts could lead to at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.😱
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#GlobalHealth #ChildMortality #Under5Deaths #PreventChildDeaths

"For years, wealthy countries drove too much of the agenda. Now we have an opportunity to re-imagine foreign aid."
#GlobalHealth #USAID #ForeignAid #PublicHealth #DebtCancellation #GlobalSouth #AidReform

WHO Executive Board, 158th session The 158th session of the WHO Executive Board take place on 2–7 February 2026.

#EB158 @who.int

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A world without violence against children is possible. But it takes leaders who are committed to changing harmful cultural norms, parents who are empowered to nurture their children, and communities that put children first.

Discover local resilience in #Sudan's #NubaMountains: Women-led protection, mutual aid amid conflict & isolation. From perfume vs bombs to community self-protection—powerful stories beyond traditional aid. www.local2global.info/countries/su... #Sudan #MutualAid #LocalProtection #HumanitarianAid

The sorry fate of primary prevention in America's global HIV plans A lone mention of PrEP amidst thousands of words speaks volumes

Bye bye PrEP: Despite lenacapavir hype (rollouts in #Eswatini/#Zambia), it's one token mention in AFGHS docs. No primary #prevention targets—no PrEP, #condoms, #circumcision plans. Alarming for global HIV.
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#HIV #PrEP #Lenacapavir #GlobalHealth

Global health is being hollowed out.
HIV prevention sidelined. WHO governance weakened. Maternal & child health traded for geopolitical deals.

What’s being lost — and who pays the price.
Weekly Newsletter.
#GlobalHealth #HIV #HealthGovernance #MaternalHealth #SRHR

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Check out this week's IHP news 864: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ Tailoring IHP to your interests & available time (pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u... )

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What global health, humanitarian aid, and international cooperation are getting right — and where the gaps are widening.

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#GlobalHealth #HumanitarianAid #Development #InternationalCooperation #GlobalGovernance #AidPolicy

Very dangerous development and a plain threat of genocide!
#KeepEyesOnSouthSudan #SouthSudan #Genocide #AtrocityPrevention

As U.S. prepares to exit WHO, it is stiffing the agency on a large bill When the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO goes into effect Thursday, the world’s largest economy will be leaving the global health agency with a hefty unpaid bill.

As U.S. prepares to exit #WHO, it is stiffing the agency on a large bill -
“Hundreds of millions are owed, but no one expects Trump administration to pay.”
www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/t...
#GlobalHealth #WHO #HealthSecurity #PandemicPreparedness #USPolitics #Multilateralism