Charles Kenny & Justin Sandefur focus on the impact that US foreign aid budget cuts & spending freezes will have on the field of public #health and find that approx 1/2 million lives will be lost each year mainly from a lack of HIV drugs & vaccinations. ow.ly/6Q7y50Wmfbu

A variety of competing narratives frame China as an extremely proactive international force: “debt trap diplomat”, aspiring hegemon filling the US void, “savior” to the Global South. I wrote about how all of them inflate assumptions about the scale of China’s global engagement

This times 192 countries,,,

I've got a newsletter going out tomorrow about screwworms and it got a little spicy

I am sure David Lammy is right that "African leaders are fed up with 'ping-pong' funding that begins under one government and is canceled under the next," so look forward to hearing him confirm the UK government will avoid canceling any funding. devex.com/news/uk-foreig…