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US aid cuts are an opportunity to reimagine global health

The global south should become self-reliant by investing in health.
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  1. Ntobeko Ntusi

    1. South African Medical Research Council and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

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US foreign policy has always been linked to the idea of US superiority and self-interest. US aid is no different and has promoted a culture of white saviorism, dependence by the global south and paternalism — rather than partnership and allyship1.

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Nature Medicine 31, 719 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41591-025-00009-9

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N.N. is president and CEO of the South African Medical Research Council.

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