From Our May 2026 Connections Newsletter

• The ODA Identity Crisis [Devex Pro]
• The World Is Falling Short Of — & Even Reversing — Its Health Targets, WHO Warns [Scientific American]
• Opinion | Philanthropy Must Choose Courage Over Caution [Time]
• Opinion | Global Health Needs More than Money [Health Policy Watch]
• Opinion | Nonprofits Need Enterprise Capital to Succeed [SSIR]
• Opinion | No One Wins if Multilateralism for Health Loses [Think Global Health]
• Child Vaccine Catch-Up Drive on Course to Hit Target: UN [France 24]
• Can Trump Export Zambia’s HIV Success? [Foreign Policy]
• Ghana Rejects Proposed US Health Aid Deal, Citing Data Concerns, Source Says [The Straits Times]
• ‘We Are Going to Die’: The Frontline Costs of Uganda’s New US Health Agreement [The New Humanitarian]
• Public Health as Diplomacy: China’s Southeast Asia Strategy [Think Global Health]
• Opinion | Why Marty Makary Was the Worst FDA Commissioner in 25 Years [STAT+]
• 6 Things We Learned at the Skoll World Forum 2025 [Devex]
• AI Will Deliver Care to Billions & Break the System That Built It [PitchBook]
• OpenAI Wants to ‘Have Their Cake & Eat It Too’ with Health AI Policy Recommendations [STAT+]
• Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage [New York Times]
• Global Hunger Is Becoming More Concentrated & More Severe, UN Says[Devex]
• Animal Skin Disease Confirmed in Clusters of European Men Who Have Sex with Men [STAT]
• We Figured Out the Deadliest Company in the World. You’ve Probably Never Heard of It. [The Examination]
• Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution, Report Warns [The Guardian]
• The Trump Team Is Quietly Eliminating US Support for Birth Control Abroad [NPR]
• Trump Is Not Just Slashing Maternity Aid Across the World – the US Is Also Being Hit Hard [The Independent]
• ICE Has Not Paid for Detainee Medical Care for 7 Months [Popular Information]
• Increased Calls to 988 Hotline Associated with a Drop in Suicides Among Young People, Study Finds [STAT]
• A Medical Examiner Chases Down an Elusive Killer [New York Times]
• Anthropic Forms $200M Partnership with the Gates Foundation[Anthropic]
• The Government’s View on What Nonprofits & Funders Can Do Differently [Spring Impact]
• South Carolina’s 200-Day Measles Outbreak Is Over. What It Cost. [The Post & Courier]
• Almost Half of African Countries Battling Measles Outbreaks [The Independent Uganda]
• Recommended Antibiotics for Neonatal Sepsis Largely Ineffective in Low-Resource Nations, Study Finds [CIDRAP]
• Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth [ProPublica]
• Health Care’s Solvable Problem [Axios]
• US Overdose Deaths Fell Again in 2025, but Some Worry about Policy & Drug Supply Changes [STAT]
• What Was Lost at the FDA [STAT+]
• This Simple House May Help Prevent Multiple Fatal Diseases in African Children [Science]
• AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After US Cuts to HIV Assistance [New York Times]
• HIV Patients in Senegal Skip Treatment, Fearing Arrest amid Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown [Reuters]
• Why Are We Seeing More Outbreaks of the Deadliest Diseases? [The Telegraph]
• Ebola Outbreak in Congo Kills Dozens, May Be Hitting Hundreds More, Africa’s CDC Says [CBS News]
• New Evidence Confirms Malaria Vaccine Saves Child Lives & Will Have High Impact in Wider Rollout [WHO]
• ‘We Are Worried’: Malaria Mounts a Comeback After Slashed US Funding [CIDRAP]
• US Launches Partnership for American-Developed Mosquito Repellent [Devex]
• AI-Powered Drones Slash Malaria Cases [GhanaWeb]
• Sudan’s Health Workers Adapt to Increasing Drone Attacks [Think Global Health]
• Flaws in Kenya’s AI-Driven Health Reforms Driving up Costs for the Poorest [The Guardian]
• Aid Cuts & a Failed Deal: Zimbabwe’s Frontline Health Care Under Strain [Devex]
• Algeria Eliminates Trachoma as a Public Health Problem [WHO]
• Gamblers Are Betting Millions of Dollars on Measles Outbreaks [NewScientist]
• Calls for Humanitarian Corridor Through Strait of Hormuz as Iran War Hits Vital Aid [The Guardian]
• UK Passes Bill That Will Eventually Ban Cigarette Purchases [AP News]
• Germany, the World’s Top Aid Donor, Proposes Development Cuts [Devex]
• Middle East Conflict Pollution Puts Africa at Risk of Health Impacts [Nature Africa]
• Opinion | Mifepristone Court Ruling Makes Drug Development Riskier for Everyone [STAT]
• Opinion | The Hantavirus Is a Wake-up Call. Will the Trump Administration Answer It? [STAT]
• The Hantavirus Outbreak Is Resurrecting Covid-Era Misinformation Tactics [New York Times]