Funding cuts are forcing the closure of 36 International Rescue Committee-supported facilities and sites, cutting off essential services for an estimated 473,700 people

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Medicare for All is a viable solution to the U.S. healthcare crisis

Ebola containment efforts in Congo are impaired by fighting between government forces and rebel groups, population movements, and severe shortages of medical supplies and treatment centers

Widespread disregard for public health precautions and an ongoing humanitarian crisis have hampered efforts to slow Ebola transmission in Congolese communities

The 2025 U.S. aid cuts pose a severe risk of a global HIV resurgence

The U.S. humanitarian waiver was ineffective at protecting global HIV treatment

The U.S. humanitarian waiver failed to protect lifesaving HIV treatment and keep care going for USAID-funded organizations because the physical apparatus to deliver funding, distribute drugs, and restore staff, commodities, and delivery systems was dismantled.

The U.S. humanitarian waiver stated that lifesaving services could continue working and implied that they would continue to receive funding.

The Preparatory Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Syndicate documented arrests, assaults, harassment, disappearances, and killings of doctors and health workers during the Sudanese conflict.

The Preparatory Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Syndicate warned that Sudan's health system is nearing collapse due to disease, poor sanitation, overcrowding, and destroyed medical infrastructure.

The Preparatory Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Syndicate documented reproductive-health risks, food shortages, and inadequate healthcare access for pregnant women and children in Sudanese displacement camps.

Attacks and lack of security have driven the displacement and migration of Sudanese doctors, causing severe shortages of medical staff in the few operating hospitals.

The Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is hindered by insecurity, population displacement, a health workers' strike, and traditional burial practices.

The World Health Organization stated that the Ebola outbreak remains out of control and is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak, which killed over 11,000 people.

Decomposing bodies, war debris, contaminated water, inadequate sanitation, and prolonged power cuts have fueled disease outbreaks and insect-borne infections across Sudan.

The failure to disinfect affected areas and restrict access to contaminated sites has increased infection risks, with disease cases rising even in relatively safe areas of Sudan.

The Preparatory Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Syndicate presented a report on Sudan's deteriorating health situation to the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The report by the Preparatory Committee of the Sudanese Doctors' Syndicate documented the destruction of key laboratories, including the National Public Health Laboratory, the University of Khartoum laboratory, and the El-Daman Hospital laboratory.

Ameth-Bek Hospital, a 91-bed secondary facility in the Abyei Special Administrative Area, is the only surgical care facility for a region 15 times the size of Singapore.

A Medecins Sans Frontieres team of two general surgeons, including Singaporean surgeon Tang Jun Han, performed 1,170 operations at Ameth-Bek Hospital between April and June 2026.

Surgeons at Ameth-Bek Hospital operated with limited resources, including having only one functioning diathermy pencil for daily operating lists and no intensive care unit.