{
  "id": 3550725,
  "title": "Germany Plans More Cuts to Global Health Funding, But Policymakers Push Back on 2027 Draft Budget",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/germany-plans-more-cuts-to-global-health-funding-but-policymakers",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-26T16:44:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Health Policy Watch",
    "slug": "health-policy-watch",
    "url": "https://healthpolicy-watch.news/germany-slash-global-health-funding/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Under Germany’s tightly constrained draft budget proposal for 2027, the government is set to reduce global health funding substantially. While mandatory assessed contributions to the World Health Organization (WHO) will rise slightly, flexible budgets for pandemic preparedness are planned to be cut by 15.3%. As part of a broader budget overhaul, the German government is […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}