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News Articles: Goats and Soda

A worker removes the U.S. Agency for International Development sign on their headquarters on February 7. A judge is set to extend the pause of President Donald Trump's plan to put employees on administrative leave.

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  • Global Health

A judge extends the pause on Trump's plan to put USAID workers on leave

A federal judge has ruled to continue for another week the freeze on the Trump administration's plan to put thousands of staffers for the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave.

February 13, 2025
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Afghan men wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 line up as the U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) distributes a monthly food ration to address fears of looming famine due to drought and winter conditions. Food for this delivery in January 2022 was largely supplied by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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  • Global Health

How the gutting of USAID is reverberating around the world: Worry, despair, praise

Reactions to the changes in USAID run the gamut. Some leading voices — like Mexico's president — are in favor. Others fear that lives will be lost as health care programs are cut.

February 11, 2025
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis,
  • Kate Bartlett,
  • and 2 more
On February 7, a worker removes the U.S. Agency for International Development sign on their headquarters in Washington, D.C.  The Trump administration has targeted with agency with a series of orders that have put its programs and employees in limbo.

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  • Global Health

Judge pauses Trump order to put USAID employees on administrative leave

The case, brought by the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees, is intended to block the administration's efforts to dismantle USAID.

February 08, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Shannon Bond
The USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Global Health

Why is the Trump administration targeting USAID?

From Day 1, the Trump team has issued a series of orders and statements aimed at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber and
  • Fatma Tanis
Deceased elephant seal pups line the beach at Punta Delgada in Chabut, Argentina, along with a bird carcass. Cause of death: bird flu.

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  • Global Health

It's like 'dead birds flying': How bird flu is spreading in the wild

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and mammals around the world. And that's a serious risk for human health.

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
The halt to USAID projects will likely impact secret schools for girls across Afghanistan, which could close as soon as the funds from the U.S. agency go dry. Above: A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe at a tutoring center in Kabul, established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a Taliban ban on girls attending secondary school.

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  • Global Health

U.S. aid freeze hits secret girls' schools, post-flood repair and much more

The suspension of foreign aid by the Trump administration is having a worldwide impact. Here's how it has affected projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid
A USAID officer watches as a US military C-17 cargo plane taxis to a stop at Kathmandu's international airport on May 3, 2015.  International aid continues to pour into Nepal to help victims of a massive earthquake on April 25 killed at least 7,200 people and devastated vast swathes of one of Asia's poorest countries.

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  • Global Health

Why does Musk want USAID 'to die'? And why did its website disappear?

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. agency that funds aid projects has faced layoffs, a stop action order for most aid efforts and a disruption of its website. Now Elon Musk says it should 'die.'

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
A woman in Nairobi, Kenya, who is HIV positive takes antiretroviral pills, which suppress the virus. The U.S. program PEPFAR is instrumental in providing these life-saving medications around the world.

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  • Global Health

Conflicting signals from Trump could disrupt HIV meds. What's the impact?

A series of orders from the Trump administration have the potential to disrupt the delivery of life-saving medications to HIV positive people. Here's what a disruption of this drug regimen would mean.

February 01, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
The sign at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The CDC is tasked with protecting the public's health.

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  • Global Health

Effective immediately: CDC can't talk to WHO. What will that mean for world health?

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health Organization.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
The front of the U.S. Agency of International Development headquarters in Washington, D.C.  The agency funds projects that aim to alleviate poverty and disease and serve humanitarian needs  around the world. A round of layoffs this week terminated nearly 400 contract employees.

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  • Global Health

Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order

All departments were affected, including offices that address HIV and AIDS, infectious disease and child health.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
A clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, disperses anti-HIV medications. Its work has been supported by the U.S. PEPFAR program. The Trump administration has now put PEPFAR funding — and activities — on hold.

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  • Global Health

Trump's 'stop-work' order for PEPFAR cuts off anti-HIV drugs for patients

As a result of the new administration's actions, health centers funded by PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, are closing their doors and no longer dispersing medication.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber and
  • Fatma Tanis
The United States Agency for International Development is the federal agency that administers foreign aid and development assistance.

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  • Global Health

Trump administration puts senior USAID officials on leave

On Monday, top officials at U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were put on leave for allegedly not abiding by President Trump's executive order to freeze much of U.S. foreign aid.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
The Department of Health and Human Services is a powerful force in shaping both domestic and global health. The confirmation hearing for President Trump's nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., commences on January 29.

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  • Global Health

If confirmed as HHS secretary, RFK Jr. would have a vast global reach

As confirmation hearings begin for RFK Jr. nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, many are focused on domestic agenda. The agency has a vast global scope as well.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Simar Bajaj
Luis Cassiano is the founder of Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit that teaches favela residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat. He's photographed at his house, which has a green roof.

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  • Global Health

Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream for Brazil's favelas. Not true!

Temps soar in Brazil's summer (from December to March). Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a typical design that's too heavy for a favela home.

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • Jill Langlois
This monument to people who died of AIDS is in Kyiv, Ukraine. That's one of the countries where the U.S. program PEPFAR has invested millions of dollars to provide testing and medicines to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS.

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  • Global Health

Trump pauses funding for anti-HIV program that prevented 26 million AIDS deaths

On Friday, a memorandum signed by Marco Rubio called for a 90-day cessation of foreign aid. That would likely put on hold the work of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
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