Several European countries have announced cuts to their foreign aid budgets, with global health programmes in the crosshairs.

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 in the six weeks since President Donald Trump took office.

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