Global health is facing major cuts. We still scored some surprising wins.

Health care workers applaud outside a hospital in September 2021 in Cape Town. | Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images It’s not an exaggeration to say that hope is in short supply these days in global health. The steep cuts to lifesaving global health programs, the burning of emergency food supplies, the renewed politicization of vaccines are just a few of the bleak developments that have happened since the start of the year. But that narrow view misses the quiet progress happening around the world. Just last week, the Maldives — a tiny archipelago in the Arabian Sea — became the first c