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🚨 Post-USAID, access to HIV treatment, maternal medicines & contraception fell sharply in parts of Kenya—months-long stockouts with life-or-death consequences.

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🦠 Polio cases are down globally — but transmission persists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Silent spread continues. Vaccine-derived outbreaks remain active in 13 countries. A $2.2B funding gap threatens progress.

Eradication is within reach — but only with sustained political

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Zambia & Zimbabwe are pushing back on “prescriptive” US health MOUs—raising a core question for global health: who controls national patient data, and on what terms?

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