Giving Compass' Take:

• Reuters reports on encouraging news from the ONE Campaign: aid financing and outreach has saved 700 million lives over the past quarter century. But it also warns that this momentum is in danger of screeching to a halt.

• The call to action here isn't just aimed at funders, but also governments and other stakeholders who must learn to work together more closely — and with greater urgency — to solve the world's biggest problems.

• Here are two main issues that prominent philanthropists want to fix in global development.

International aid financing and innovation has helped to save nearly 700 million lives in the past 25 years, but those gains could be lost if momentum and political will wane, global health experts said on Monday.

A report by international aid advocacy group the ONE Campaign said the progress against preventable deaths and diseases since 1990 could stall, and even go into reverse, unless donor governments make new commitments to innovation and action.

The good news is that the world knows what it takes to succeed, said the report, released to coincide with a conference on global health in Berlin this week ...

But the report said donor assistance for global health has flat-lined since 2014, even though about 7,000 people still die each day of the preventable diseases AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria — most of them in the poorest countries in Africa.

Read the full article about why international aid work is at risk by Kate Kelland at reuters.com.