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Jennifer Rigby

London

Global Health Correspondent at Reuters

Global health correspondent @Reuters, formerly @TelGlobalHealth and @Channel4News, briefly in Myanmar

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  • Gilead commits to HIV prevention rollout for low-income countries despite funding uncertainty

    1 week ago | today.westlaw.com | Deena Beasley |Jennifer Rigby |Bill Berkrot |Julie Steenhuysen

    (Reuters) -Gilead Sciences says it still plans to supply its twice-yearly injection for preventing HIV infection in low-income countries if it wins U.S. approval despite funding uncertainty over the Trump Administration's pullback in aid spending....

  • Global vaccine and health bodies could team up more to tackle US-led funding crisis

    2 weeks ago | reuters.com | Jennifer Rigby

    Global health sector faces funding crunch after aid cutsVaccine group Gavi and the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria mull merging some functionsCloser collaboration will help countries, they sayLONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Two global health groups that fund billions of dollars worth of critical medical aid - from childhood vaccines to malaria treatments - are in talks about merging some functions to help combat a financing crunch, their chief executives told Reuters.

  • WHO plans for life without the US and a $600m shortfall

    2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Jennifer Rigby |Emma Farge

    The US had provided about 18% of the WHO’s funding. “We’ve got to make do with what we have,” said one Western diplomat, who asked not to be named. Staff have been getting ready — cutting managers and budgets — ever since Trump’s January announcement in a rush of directives and aid cuts that have disrupted a string of multilateral pacts and initiatives.

  • World Health Organisation looks ahead to life without the US

    2 weeks ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Jennifer Rigby |Emma Farge

    A Ugandan doctor vaccinates the contact of a patient who tested positive during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus with a trial vaccine at the Mulago Guest House (Isolation centre) in Kampala, Uganda, on February 3 2025. File photo.

  • World Health Organization looks ahead to life without the US

    2 weeks ago | reuters.com | Jennifer Rigby |Emma Farge

    World Health Organization (WHO) logo and U.S. flag are seen in this illustration taken April 23, 2025.

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Jennifer Rigby
Jennifer Rigby @jriggers
7 Mar 25

RT @Reuters_Health: Nigeria to receive leprosy drugs after a year-long delay https://t.co/sBBiXULMMQ https://t.co/sBBiXULMMQ

Jennifer Rigby
Jennifer Rigby @jriggers
14 Feb 25

Medical oxygen that could help hundreds of thousands of adults and children worldwide with often life-threatening breathing problems is stalled at several points in the supply chain after the USAID freeze - https://t.co/TioRWDAg1X

Jennifer Rigby
Jennifer Rigby @jriggers
6 Feb 25

Trump team considers pushing for WHO reforms, including an American in charge, to stay in the agency https://t.co/UN35a6N6zr