Pandemic Preparedness Financing Faces Collapse as ODA Cuts Loom
General Assembly • United NationsSeptember 25, 2026
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The United Nations General Assembly's second multi-stakeholder panel on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response drew more than 25 interventions from governments, international organizations, and civil society — and a single, urgent throughline: the world is not ready for the next pandemic, and the money to fix that is drying up fast.
Co-chaired by Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung of Singapore and Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan of Armenia, the session laid bare a global divide between nations demanding structural reforms to intellectual property, manufacturing, and financing — and those insisting on national ownership and measurable outcomes first.
- OECD warns overseas development aid for infectious diseases could fall 40% by 2026, announces new joint tracker with WHO and World Bank to measure pandemic preparedness spending
- Pandemic Fund reports $11.5 billion portfolio across 128 countries — but demand exceeds supply by more than six times
- Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, and Brazil push for regional vaccine manufacturing to end dependency on concentrated global supply chains
- WOAH argues a 52% increase in global veterinary budgets — less than 0.05% of COVID-19's 2020 economic cost — could prevent the next zoonotic outbreak
- Medical students and nurses call workforce investment and community trust the frontline of preparedness, not afterthoughts
- United States cautions against undefined terms like "equity" while reaffirming its status as the world's largest global health donor
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