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Aid cuts of £150m 'would lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths'
The Guardian
|November 12, 2025
The UK has cut by 15% its contribution to an aid fund combating preventable diseases, a decision that aid groups said would lead to hundreds of thousands more preventable deaths.
The UK will commit £850m to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for 2027-29, against the £1bn pledged by the Conservatives for the last funding round.
While the sum is slightly higher than the £800m previously discussed by senior officials, aid groups called it a serious setback.
The total given by all countries to the global fund will be announced later this month at an event co-hosted by the UK on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa.
This story is from the November 12, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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