The NIH is preparing to introduce a policy that will temporarily halt funding for international laboratories and hospitals, greatly affecting global health initiatives, particularly those focusing on infectious diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. This move comes amidst efforts to reduce federal spending, which has already seen the shutdown of the US Agency for International Development. Notable figures in the scientific community are expressing deep concern about the detrimental effects on global health collaboration and research, potentially leading to increased mortality in low-income countries as critical research goes unfunded.
A forthcoming policy from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will target - and at least temporarily stop - funding to laboratories and hospitals outside the United States.
'These decisions will have tragic consequences,' says Francis Collins, a geneticist who led the NIH, highlighting the impact on global health projects.
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