Funding cuts expose vulnerabilitiesThe stakes of this shift became clear in Sokoto State, in northern Nigeria, where donor funding cuts, particularly from USAID, hit malaria programming hard. Fixing fragmentation, not just fundingMozambique is showing how better coordination between government and health partners can help protect essential services when international funding comes under pressure. "Because there were funding cuts, of course, in the past, but this will be the new normal now," he said, pointing to the growing pressure on health funding globally. The lesson emerging from Mozambique is not simply that countries can survive funding cuts by doing more with less. In Nigeria, even as malaria funding was disrupted, maternal health, family planning and routine immunisation improved in the same geography where broader government-led reforms were underway.