As a result of U.S. funding cuts and related national budget reprioritizations, the Global Fund’s Debt2Health Financing mechanism is being reprogrammed to focus on the procurement of essential tuberculosis health products in Indonesia.
Date: 11/25
Region: East Asia & Pacific
Country: Indonesia
Topic: Health
Policy Lens: Global Health Security
Entry Type: Secondary Effect
Additional Context: This information was included in the “The impact of 2025 funding cuts on TB services” annex of the World Health Organization's, or WHO, 2025 Global Tuberculosis Report.
Devex Researcher Note: Debt2Health is Global Fund financing mechanisms where creditor and debtor countries convert debt repayments into health investments to fight malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. Indonesia signed a€75 million Debt2Health agreement with Germany which, apart from essential tuberculosis services, focused on improving screening, expanding community outreach, and fostering public-private programs aimed at tuberculosis prevention and care. These areas of work under the agreement have had to be rebalanced due to changing priorities because of U.S. aid cuts.
Source: WHO