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The State Department will dispense the $600 million Congress appropriated to an international partnership helping developing countries buy and distribute vaccines, Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee said Tuesday. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine safety skeptic, has held up the funding for months because he believes the partnership, Gavi, uses outdated and dangerous shots. (Paun, 7/28)

A trove of new reports highlights the scope of cuts to international funding for the HIV response in limited-resource countries, and the impact those cuts are having on the organizations that deliver HIV services. In a joint report published yesterday, KFF and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) found that donor government funding for HIV decreased by $2.1 billion, or 25%, in 2025 compared with the previous year. The decline reduced donor government funding for HIV to $6.2 billion, which is below pre-2008 levels, the report notes. (Dall, 7/28)

The federal government will stop funding what it determines to be “dangerous” gain-of-function research conducted in the U.S. and abroad after implementing a new policy. The “Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research” lands during broader upheaval in federal research funding. Between March and June 2025, the NIH terminated more than 2,500 grants and at least $3.2 billion in funding. Federal judges have ordered some of those cuts reversed. (Twenter, 7/28)

Last year, National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers were worried about losing their status due to numerous delays in the grantmaking process. More than a year later, leadership at these centers said the situation is more stable -- but the funding is coming through much more slowly. (Fiore, 7/28)

���ϳԹ��� News: Trump Has Quietly Throttled An Agency Devoted To The Safety Of American Healthcare

The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice. In a July 15 letter, the small Department of Health and Human Services agency known as AHRQ told researchers it was halting at least 104 grants, many aimed at improving patient safety. (Allen, 7/29)

For nearly half a century, the federal government encouraged international students and scholars to study in the U.S. by allowing them to stay for the duration of their training — regardless of how many years it took. The Trump administration now plans to tear up that long-standing policy, fueling concerns in the research community that the U.S. could lose out on talented foreign scientists. (Wosen, 7/28)

Senate Republicans, and particularly Rand Paul (R-Ky.), have long been critical of the government’s actions during the Covid-19 pandemic — which began during the first Trump administration — and have sought to pin blame on those they believe played some role in the virus’s outbreak and what they describe as a subsequent cover-up of the pandemic’s origins. (Cirruzzo, Payne and Branswell, 7/28)

Ahead of Anthony Fauci, MD, testifying before Congress on Wednesday, a group of 155 scientists, physicians, and public health advocates signed an open letter calling on elected officials to end the "vilification and harassment" of scientists. The letter states that the Trump administration and its allies in Congress are "waging a war on individual scientists, through public harassment, arrests, criminal indictment, and ongoing threats of prosecution." (Fiore, 7/28)

A former Trump health official on Tuesday slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci over his recently-released journal entries. “I’d like to see honesty and transparency and I’d like Tony to come clean with all the things that he’s really been caught in contradictions,” Dr. Brett Giroir, a former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill,” discussing upcoming congressional testimony from Fauci. (Suter, 7/28)