Venezuela’s upper-middle-income country status has impeded its access to global health assistance even as its once world-renowned health system has fallen to pieces. In May 2018, however, the Global Fund, a multilateral donor focused on ending AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis as epidemics, introduced a new approach to non-high-income countries ineligible for aid but in […]
The future of U.S. policy in Syria: Withdrawal?
As the Syria conflict persists alongside the incipient defeat of the Islamic State terror group, the United States retains de facto control over almost a third of Syrian territory. Four other major outside actors have their own conflicting interests in the country as well, which begs the questions: How will the United States navigate this […]