The cancellation of USAID contracts has threatened critical global health research. Plus, new guidance to prevent HIV in newborns, and Gavi delays its replenishment drive by three months.

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for the U.S., where TB cases have also been rising.

As per WHO, US funding cuts could affect the drug supply chains in other countries, which are now "breaking down". Not just limited to that, but laboratory services are "severely disrupted" and surveillance systems are "collapsing",

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised an alarming concern about a potential surge in tuberculosis (TB) cases globally following significant funding cuts from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).