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Analyses the decline of health data infrastructures, affecting population health monitoring.
Summary box At the start of 2025, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) programme was paused due to the defunding of USAID, illustrating the fragility of the international data infrastructures on which many national health systems rely.
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