Although Department of International Development funding is ringfenced for now, there are cuts on the table.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2010/aug/13/international-aid-and-development-globalrecession
originally from:
http://www.leftfootforward.org/
A leaked document indicates that spending on health services and systems (£6bn up to 2015, exluding HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria) may be cut. When this was spending was proposed back in 2008 it included climate change in it's scope. Also included were aspects of fairer trade and improving use of evidence in practice.
We are increasingly aware of how global health has become. Despite the controversies surrounding the swine flu pandemic, it did highlight the risks that a health problem the other side of the world can very soon be a health problem here.
Just when climate change is getting on the health agenda, or the other way round, it's future seems uncertain. We'll have to wait to see how tough that ring-fence is, in this 'greenest ever' government.
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