Vanuatu had a clear goal at last month’s annual assembly of the World Health Organization in Geneva – securing new international aid for the Pacific island nation.
“I’m here to lobby for support,” said Jenny Stephens, Vanuatu’s director of public health.
“We are experiencing the global funding cuts – it’s affecting our programmes like malaria, TB and HIV. We’re already struggling.”
Vanuatu’s health programmes are among thousands in the Global South that have been halted or cancelled since the…