Commentary: Why Floridians should be outraged at the dismantling of USAID
The humanitarian organization’s collapse cuts Florida’s access to disaster relief, agricultural exports and more that affect ...
State Department formally notifies Congress of dissolving USAID; court allows cuts
The State Department on Friday formally notified Congress of the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ...
Devex4d
Ousted USAID health lead says US fumbled Uganda’s Ebola response
The acting assistant administrator for global health at USAID, who was put on administrative leave, said Ebola response ...
Potential changes to USAID by Trump administration are jeopardizing Pennsylvania man's business
Bryan Enslein's business, Global Build Collaborative, is now in jeopardy amid the Trump administration's push for big changes ...
The Lancet7d
End of USAID leaves enormous funding shortfall for TB
WHO issued a statement outlining the grave consequences of the US decision to drastically cut international funding for tuberculosis. WHO noted that countries with high burdens of tuberculosis disease ...
Opinion
‘We Will Pay in Lives’: The Devastating Cost of Dismantling USAID
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof explains the various ways the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID will hurt the U.S.
The challenging but compelling political case for USAID
Rarely if ever does a newspaper headline include the words “crisis averted,” yet, that is what investments in development ...
Yahoo17d
'It is a dangerous strategy, and one for which we all may pay dearly': Dismantling USAID leaves the US more exposed to pandemics than ever
In 2014, for example, USAID deployed teams in West Africa to coordinate the response to a fast-growing Ebola outbreak. A significant part of that response was the establishment of screening ...
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"2 million dead by the end of the year": Ex-USAID chief says aid cuts will kill starving children
Beyond food aid, the agency supplied assistance for projects like containing the spread of Ebola, clearing landmines and providing prosthetic limbs to injured soldiers in Ukraine. USAID’s ...
The Post-Crescent17d
LETTERS: USAID cuts hit home as Appleton man's son, son's wife stuck in Tunisia after pay cut
The Republican end of USAID has made our son homeless ... preventing diseases spreading (read Ebola, money pox, measles, HIV, covid, flu, rabies, bird flu, etc.). He can’t even pay his own ...
Al Jazeera on MSN18d
Across Global South, USAID’s demise raises fears of malaria, TB resurgence
From 2010 to 2023, the number of cases caused by the most common malaria parasite declined from nearly half a million to fewer than 248,000, according to the Global Fund, a United States ...