// SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: HEALTH
The spiralling health crisis threatens to become a global catastrophe as funding collapses and aid is cut. To save lives, countries must urgently safeguard health budgets, generate new revenues and strengthen systems – with backing from global partners health financing emergency now to save lives We must tackle the current global
T he world is facing a global health financing emergency. Countries were already struggling to pay for health services because of the ballooning costs of servicing loans, the continuing economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and deprioritisation of health in budgets, with increasing spending on defence. The recent dramatic aid cuts by the United States and other countries have exacerbated this emergency. Feedback to the World Health Organization from more than 100 countries shows severe disruptions to health services in almost three-quarters of countries, and closures of health facilities in one-quarter of countries. To avoid preventable deaths and suffering, and make progress towards inclusive economic growth, countries can and must act now to protect essential health services through prioritising the worst off, increasing efficiency, generating new revenue through taxes and other sources of funding from global partners, and better pooling this spending on health. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general, World Health Organization
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