With little break after last year’s spending challenges, ONE is once again gearing up for another major battle for the world’s most vulnerable people. That’s right: it is time to begin work on the FY ’14 appropriations bill. This week, the House Appropriations Committee announced how much they plan to make available or “allocate” in
Although this piece focuses on UK foreign assistance, it raises some important concerns that citizens in the US and Canada might have about their country’s own aid. This article was originally published on The Huffington Post UK. The debate on the UK’s aid budget has never been more polarized. A small group of aid critics use
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Almost every week on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition’s blog, someone from our 30 member organizations tells another story illustrating the inspiring and tremendous impact frontline health workers are making in saving and improving lives around the world. What might not be as well known is that, according to USAID, 0.0000087 percent of the US budget in 2011 went to global health programs, including programs that help thousands of frontline health workers save millions of lives.
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