{"id":10624,"date":"2025-10-22T18:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10624"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:01:06","slug":"global-health-is-facing-major-cuts-we-still-scored-some-surprising-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/global-health-is-facing-major-cuts-we-still-scored-some-surprising-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Global health is facing major cuts. We still scored some surprising wins."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/465486\/global-health-maldives-hepatitis-b-ebola-trachoma?utm.com\">Vox<\/a> From Maldives to the Democratic Republic of Congo, there has been stunning progress in tackling diseases. It\u2019s not an exaggeration to say that hope is in short supply these days in global health. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkglobalhealth.org\/article\/state-global-health-funding-august-2025\">steep cuts to lifesaving global health programs<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2025\/07\/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump\/683532\/\">burning of emergency food supplies<\/a>, the renewed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccines-fluoride-kennedy-trump-science-antiscience-legislation-73af8e65f407331e8f31b2909812a004\">politicization of vaccines<\/a>&nbsp;are just a few of the bleak developments that have happened since the start of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that narrow view misses the quiet progress happening around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just last week, the Maldives \u2014 a tiny archipelago in the Arabian Sea \u2014 became the first country in the world to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/13-10-2025-maldives-becomes-the-first-country-to-achieve-triple-elimination-of-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv-syphilis-and-hepatitis-b\">eliminate the transmission of hepatitis B, HIV, and syphilis<\/a>&nbsp;from mother to child. That\u2019s no small feat. Across Southeast Asia, thousands of pregnant women still pass on these infections to their babies each year. Hepatitis B alone affects more than 42 million people in the region, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox From Maldives to the Democratic Republic of Congo, there has been stunning progress in tackling diseases. It\u2019s not an exaggeration to say that hope is in short supply these days in global health. The&nbsp;steep cuts to lifesaving global health programs, the&nbsp;burning of emergency food supplies, the renewed&nbsp;politicization of vaccines&nbsp;are just a few of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10625,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions\/10625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}