Compassion is waning, political will is hardening, and international cooperation is faltering at the very moment it is most needed.
The consequences are brutally visible: Gaza’s decimated hospitals, Sudan’s besieged communities, and Rohingya families surviving in overcrowded camps and communities across Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Across these crises, the gap between what is needed and what the world is willing to provide has never been wider or more dangerous.
Even the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, and Malaria exposes this retreat, with pledges falling far short as medicines run out, health workers go unpaid, and preventable deaths rise. Without renewed commitments, decades of progress risk unravelling.
In this fractured landscape...