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In a lot of these countries, USAID would be funding 50, 60, or even 70 per cent of the health budget, and it’s gone. So these governments are scrambling; they’re just having to take money from wherever to keep the most basic services running,
Ms Shaw said
For us, [the freeze] means losing $14 million in funding… it’s absolute chaos,
Ms Shaw told the audience at the Frontline Club in London, which included NHS doctors, healthcare providers, researchers in reproductive rights, advocates, and journalistsThere is literally no way of getting that stock from the warehouse into the clinics because the distribution systems have all ground to a halt because the US government didn’t just fund services, it funded the health infrastructure,
she addedThe thing about the stop-work order – definitely for our teams in Zimbabwe – is that they literally have to stop. That’s it. We are done. They haven’t even been able to warn the communities that they’re working with that the mobile teams are not going to come out next time,
she saidIt’s going to be really hard to drive this truck in reverse, because they’ve washed out the road behind us,
a humanitarian official said
The U.S. funding cuts are dismantling the system,
International AIDS Society President Beatriz Grinsztejn said in a statement to NBC NewsThere seems to be no pattern to it
one humanitarian official saidWe prefinance all that work, then we invoice the government for reimbursement; without that reimbursement, we can’t pay our staff, our partners, our vendors, our creditors,
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That’s what American tax dollars were funding,
Musk said on X on Friday in response to a post about the closure of the first of the Mitr clinics, launched in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad in 2021
We did some really good work at Mitr Clinics,
said one of the sources, a doctorWith HIV prevention programs halting immediately, we are headed for disaster,
said Yvette Raphael, the executive director at Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS in South Africa
Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio has now made a final decision with respect to each award, on an individual basis, affirmatively electing to either retain the award or terminate it … as inconsistent with the national interests and foreign policy of the United States,
the court document statedWe closed 33 primary health clinics in Sudan, and 12 health facilities in Somalia and water and sanitation services across three camps in Darfur,
she saidThere are actions that the US government is taking … which we’re concerned are having a serious impact on global health.”
Earlier this month, the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said
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We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,
Bezos saidIt was so magical and cute. I was so excited and happy when I discovered it,
the original poster saidThe American people deserve a transparent accounting of what will be lost — on counterterror, global health, food security, and competition,
the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition saidYou’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair,
Musk wrote on X earlier this month
In total, nearly 5,800 USAID awards were terminated, and more than 500 USAID awards were retained. The total ceiling value of the retained awards is approximately US$57 billion."
Quote from the Trump administration
At the conclusion of a process led by USAID leadership, including tranches personally reviewed by Secretary [Marco] Rubio, nearly 5,800 awards with $54 billion in value remaining were identified for elimination as part of the America First agenda – a 92 percent reduction,
a State Department spokesperson said in a statement