{"id":543615,"date":"2026-07-11T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543615\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:58:10","slug":"avac-the-new-model-for-us-global-health-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543615\/","title":{"rendered":"AVAC: The new model for US global health partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AVAC analysis<\/p>\n<p>PEPFAR and US bilateral health agreements continue to evolve. This week,\u00a0Think Global Health\u00a0expanded its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkglobalhealth.org\/article\/tracking-the-america-first-bilateral-health-agreements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tracker of the US Administration\u2019s bilateral health agreements<\/a>, showing that 31 countries have now signed five-year agreements that increasingly shift financing and implementation responsibilities to national governments through co-investment and country ownership models. Andrew Green focuses on one country, South Sudan, in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/will-the-us-funding-deal-rescue-south-sudan-s-health-system-112885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Devex piece<\/a>\u00a0that looks at the country\u2019s new three-year, $166 million MoU with the US, noting that while it preserves support for HIV and disease surveillance, funding may be insufficient to offset recent aid reductions and the country may struggle to meet its own financial commitments.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate analysis, Jirair Ratevosian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ratevosian.substack.com\/p\/what-five-reports-to-congress-reveal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">broke down<\/a>\u00a0what five reports from the US Department of State to Congress reveal about the Administration\u2019s vision for global health. He writes, \u201cRead together, these excerpts are overwhelmingly about the mechanics of transition: MOUs, implementation plans, co-investment, funding adjustments, corrective actions, benchmarks, workforce transfer, and reductions in US\u00a0assistance. There is much less discussion of incidence, viral suppression, advanced disease management, prevention gaps, community systems, or epidemic control\u2026 It suggests they are no longer the organizing principle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IMPLICATIONS: These pieces reflect a move toward implementation of the new global health agreements. As implementation continues, we\u2019ll be watching whether the financing assumptions, implementation systems and country commitments that are the foundation of these agreements are sufficient enough to sustain HIV and broader health gains. As Ratevosian notes, \u201cEvery Administration has its own priorities. But organizing principles matter because they determine what leaders measure, what they reward, and ultimately what they protect. When transition becomes the primary frame, there is a risk that epidemic control becomes something assumed rather than something actively managed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AVAC publishes a weekly Global Health Watch, a curated digest of key developments in global health. Access this week\u2019s issue (10 July) <a href=\"https:\/\/avac.org\/blog\/global-health-watch-issue76\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.SEE ALSO:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AVAC analysis PEPFAR and US bilateral health agreements continue to evolve. This week,\u00a0Think Global Health\u00a0expanded its\u00a0tracker of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-543615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}