$78 million health funding hole, Mahama tells WHO: US aid freeze is hitting malaria, HIV and child survival.
Ghana has lost some $78 million in health funding following the suspension of aid programmes to some African countries by the United States, President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed. Speaking at the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva on 18 May, he said the drop in bilateral and multilateral support since 2025 had hit key health interventions like malaria control, maternal and child health services, nutrition, HIV/AIDS testing and anti-retroviral treatment. He said global health assistance has fallen by some 40 per cent since the COVID-19 pandemic, but also pointed to budget cuts and programme scaling down at the World Health Organization due to less funding. Mr Mahama called for more domestic financing for health and less reliance on foreign aid to protect health care delivery systems across Africa.
