Pakistan’s Health Faces Funding Gap as Global Aid Shrinks

Global funding for health has shrunk since 2025, pushing Pakistan’s already strained system toward crisis: vaccination programs, TB/HIV control, and mother-child health services rely on donor support that is being pulled back, causing higher costs, clinic closures, staff layoffs, and stockouts. Experts warn of potential outbreaks and call for rapid, transitional planning to shift to domestically financed, sustainable health funding and reforms to protect the most vulnerable.