{"id":483412,"date":"2026-05-13T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483412\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:56:11","slug":"eu-trumpets-its-reliability-on-global-health-as-us-slashes-foreign-aid-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483412\/","title":{"rendered":"EU trumpets its reliability on global health as US slashes foreign aid \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The strategy also condemns the \u201cinstrumentalization\u201d of health and says closing \u201cthe emerging gaps in global health resilience\u201d is crucial.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has come under fire from global health advocates for offering <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/us-speeds-up-signing-of-bilateral-health-agreements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">funding deals<\/a> with developing countries that formerly received USAID support, in return for them boosting disease surveillance and providing America with access to disease data and in some cases rare minerals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth is increasingly instrumentalised in the pursuit of geopolitical and geoeconomic interests,\u201d writes the Commission. \u201cGlobal health governance is shifting away from multilateral cooperation and humanitarian principles towards at times overtly transactional bilateral approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staying the course<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Commission wants to help strengthen countries&#8217; health systems, fight fake news and tackle \u201cdangerous dependencies\u201d in supply chains \u2014 though it hasn&#8217;t announced any new funding for its plan.<\/p>\n<p>To boost prevention, preparedness and response to crises, the EU will invest in drugs, vaccines and diagnostics. It will also help set up a new global therapeutics development coalition and EU hubs for therapeutics and diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p>The EU will also help map global health spending, in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Health Organization and the World Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The strategy also condemns the \u201cinstrumentalization\u201d of health and says closing \u201cthe emerging gaps in global health resilience\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[6839,211402,8626,18,74685,8708,135,475,1119,474,19,4381,17,211403,9457,4111,2101,13677,40784,384,4894,14160],"class_list":{"0":"post-483412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-disinformation","9":"tag-aid-and-development","10":"tag-diagnostics","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-eu27","13":"tag-global-health","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-health-care","16":"tag-health-systems","17":"tag-healthcare","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-infectious-diseases","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-jozef-sikela","22":"tag-misinformation","23":"tag-prevention","24":"tag-public-health","25":"tag-resilience","26":"tag-supply-chains","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","29":"tag-vaccines"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116569976719086069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}