>Officials say that given other aid commitments – for example, to Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine – even the 15% reduction amounts to “a good vote of confidence in the global fund” within this context.
>The One campaign, which works on development in Africa, said it had calculated that the 15% cut could mean 255,000 otherwise preventable deaths, many of them affecting children. The money given was “a welcome commitment to collective efforts to fight HIV/Aids, TB and malaria – but ministers must go further”, it said.
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I realize as an American that I have no stones to throw from my glass house, but this is just disappointing news. Who’s going to tell John Green?
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>Government officials argue it shows ministers are prioritising the global fund in the context of much bigger overall cuts to overseas aid, which has been reduced from 0.7% of national income to 0.5% [and will fall](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/28/keir-starmer-carry-out-largest-cut-uk-overseas-aid-in-history) to 0.3% in 2027.
>Officials say that given other aid commitments – for example, to Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine – even the 15% reduction amounts to “a good vote of confidence in the global fund” within this context.
>Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, called the commitment “an investment in our shared security and prosperity”. However, the decision will cause dismay among a number of Labour MPs. Last week a group of seven MPs who have served as ministers under Starmer [wrote to the prime minister](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/08/cutting-aid-for-disease-fund-would-be-moral-failure-labour-mps-tell-starmer) warning that a cut would be a “moral failure” and a strategic disaster.
>The One campaign, which works on development in Africa, said it had calculated that the 15% cut could mean 255,000 otherwise preventable deaths, many of them affecting children. The money given was “a welcome commitment to collective efforts to fight HIV/Aids, TB and malaria – but ministers must go further”, it said.
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I realize as an American that I have no stones to throw from my glass house, but this is just disappointing news. Who’s going to tell John Green?