#164: This Week in Global Dev: Inside the US global health overhaul and Buffett's philanthropic strategy
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#164: This Week in Global Dev: Inside the US global health overhaul and Buffett's philanthropic strategy

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 202635 min
  • Politics

The United States is set to implement one of the biggest overhauls of its global health assistance in decades. The new strategy will reshape how billions of dollars flow to 35 countries, shifting greater responsibility onto their governments through bilateral agreements that encapsulate the Trump administration’s America First Global Health Strategy. In this episode, we discuss what we know of the ins and outs of these health deals, what they mean for the wider foreign aid architecture, and why their known components are already proving controversial despite being largely shrouded in secrecy. The conversation then turns to our event with Ho...

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My name is David Engsworth and you're listening to This Week in Global Development hosted by myself, Richard Kamber and Abba Saldingham. And I'm joined this week by our managing editor Anna Gavelle and one of our health reporters Andrew Green.

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I do find This Week in Global Development a very hard phrase to say quickly. Maybe it's the British accent, I don't know. But... Actually, we say twigs, so maybe the audience will be interested and start saying twigs.

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Maybe we can train our audience to just start saying twigged instead. Because that's what they need, another acronym in this sector. Well, they want to be used to it by now, really. I mean, they should be pretty well trained in the use of acronyms.

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