Starmer: UK can still prioritise global health spending

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says countries like the UK that are “having to make difficult decisions on development spending” can still “choose to prioritise global health”. That’s despite reports that the U.K.'s commitment to the initiative will stand at £850 million over the next three years, a 15% decrease from 2022. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Heartbreakingly. Malaria still kills a child under five years of age every

00:09minute. Just think about that. 4,000 adolescent girls and young women still

00:16contract HIV every week. TB remains the world's single deadliest infectious

00:24disease even though we've had a cure for almost a century. And the rise of

00:32antimicrobial resistance even threatens some of the progress that we thought we

00:37had made. So let me address very directly what many of us are feeling right now.

00:44How do we win this fight when countries like my own are having to make difficult

00:51decisions on our development spending? Well first even when we make these

00:58decisions we can choose to prioritize global health and to prioritize

01:04organizations like the Global Fund.

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