Tag: KFF Global Health & HIV Policy Program

CDC is “in the ICU right now” former officials say

Volume 406, Issue 10508
13 September 2025
WORLD REPORT  Senior officials say HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is eviscerating the CDC. Washington Correspondent Susan Jaffe reports.    
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) implosion was months in the making, senior officials tell The Lancet after they resigned in protest following the dismissal of CDC Director Susan Monarez by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. They describe a gutted agency so damaged that it might not be able to fulfil its core mission to protect Americans from public health threats.  An HHS spokeswoman called their comments “the gripes of disgruntled former employees.”  [Continued here.]
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Abortion foes threaten PEPFAR

Volume 402, Issue 10402
19 August 2023 

 

WORLD REPORT  Republicans question funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, one of the USA’s most effective global health programmes. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

As Congress considers next month whether to renew funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), global health advocates fear its two decades of bipartisan support might fracture. Created by President George W Bush in 2003, the programme is often cited as proof that adversaries across the political spectrum can agree on healthcare policy. …But this time is looking different.  [Continued here.]…