The UK’s decision last week to fund an increase in defence spending with deep cuts to the foreign aid budget was met with widespread dismay. It followed on from the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to its USAid programme, and is part of the wider trend towards politicising development funding that has left the sector suddenly facing decisions that are likely to impact global heath and security for generations to come.
Global health correspondent Kat Lay sets out the catastrophe facing the development funding world, illustrated by case studies of how the aid cuts will damage programmes tackling hunger, HIV and Aids, the environment and women and girls.
