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News Articles: USAID

Caitlin Tulloch at home.

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  • Global Health

A matchmaking service with a twist: Connecting big givers to programs cut by USAID

A former USAID worker has a new mission. She's hoping to connect philanthropists with overseas programs that have lost — or are likely to lose — their U.S. funding.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Plumpy'Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island. Has the "ready-to-use therapeutic food" — credited with an 80 to 90% recovery rate among malnourished children — been caught up in the U.S. aid cuts?

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  • Global Health

Where's Plumpy'Nut? A lifesaving food for malnourished kids is caught up in U.S. cuts

It's a "ready-to-use therapeutic food" that's had remarkable success in treating malnourished kids. The State Department says it's still available. Factories and field workers have a different view.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Jewel Bright,
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • and 1 more
For more than two months, Mary Mayongana, 42, hasn't been able to consistently take her HIV medication. She says she feels weak and has developed an itchy rash.

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  • Global Health

Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills

HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.

April 20, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • Rebecca Davis,
  • and 1 more
Catherine Mwaloe, 16, who contracted HIV from her mother at birth, has one month's supply of HIV medicine left. She worries that government clinics will charge money for the medications, which were previously free.

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  • Global Health

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out

Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • Rebecca Davis,
  • and 1 more
Afghan men load up food packets that were distributed as aid by the World Food Programme. Last weekend, all USAID contracts supporting humanitarian aid from WFP and other agencies in Afghanistan were canceled.

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  • Global Health

Dozens of USAID contracts were canceled last weekend. Here's what happened

The rationale was to address "mismanagement, fraud, and misaligned priorities." Former USAID official Jeremy Konyndyk said reversals and inconsistences in the cancellations created "total whiplash."

April 12, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
A midwife assesses a pregnant woman at a mobile health clinic in Afghanistan. In the wake of the freeze of USAID, some 200 clinics in the country have had to close.  Midwives told NPR that it's now more difficult for pregnant women, especially in remote areas, to get medical care in case of a crisis.

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  • Global Health

A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives.'

With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.

March 31, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Khwaga Ghani
"USAID" is etched onto a covering where signage used to be at the U.S. Agency for International Development's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Global Health

USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees

The remaining USAID employees were given an end-of-employment date in an email sent out Friday.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
A health care worker administers a measles vaccine to a child at a temporary vaccination camp following an outbreak in Mumbai. India is among the countries that get vaccination support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, whose USAID funding has been terminated.

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  • Global Health

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has its billion dollar grant cut by Trump administration

Gavi, which helps countries purchase and distribute vaccines, is among thousands of programs determined to be "inconsistent with the national interest or Agency policy priorities."

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Fran Kritz
Pete Marocco (center), who served as deputy administrator for USAID in the new Trump administration until last week, arrives at Capitol Hill on March 5 to meet with members of Congress to discuss foreign assistance. He was on staff at the agency during the first Trump administration — and both times sought to cut many of its programs.

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  • Global Health

Pete Marocco tried to upend USAID in 2020 -- and failed. In 2025, he dismantled it

This Trump administration official was a key figure in the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development — and will help set the agenda for the future of foreign aid.

March 25, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
President Donald Trump gestures to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts after his swearing-in ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20.

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  • Politics

Courts push back, wars heat up and 3 more takeaways from Trump's moves this week

Here are five takeaways from a week when President Trump moved ahead with deportations and sweeping changes to the federal government — and ran into obstacles in the courts.

March 21, 2025
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
A pregnant woman brought her child to a health clinic in Farchana, Chad. They are sitting under a mosquito net.

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  • Global Health

As U.S. foreign aid programs grind to a halt, African health leaders look for a silver lining

Chad has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality. A group of midwives helped but now their jobs are on the line — one of many cases where countries must try to keep such programs alive.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Secretary of State Rubio (center) flanked by Doug Burgum, secretary of the interior, and President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting on Feb. 26. On Monday, Rubio posted on X that 83% of USAID contracts had been canceled following a review.

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  • Global Health

Rubio announces that 83% of USAID contracts will be canceled

In a memo posted to X on Monday morning, the secretary of state said 5,200 contracts had been canceled following a six-week review.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
South African boys from a rural area are briefed by an health worker from Doctors Without Borders before undergoing medical circumcision as a form of HIV prevention. The U.S. has supported male circumcision programs in countries with high rates of HIV. In his address to Congress this week, President Donald Trump listed aid programs that he considers an "appalling waste" and included "$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique."

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  • Global Health

Trump says 'male circumcision in Mozambique' is a 'scam.' What's the program about?

In his Tuesday address to Congress, President Trump listed U.S.-funded programs that he considers an "appalling waste" — including "$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique."

March 06, 2025
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By:
  • Bec Roldan
Women leave the poling station after casting their vote in Thaba-Tseka district, Lesotho, on Oct. 7, 2022.

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  • Africa

What to know about Lesotho, the country Trump said 'nobody has ever heard of'

President Trump defended his humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." Here are some facts about the African nation of Lesotho.

March 05, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
Jeremy Robinson (center) and Aliyah Hill perform last checks on packets of Mana Nutrition emergency food supplements for children before packaging them in the nonprofit’s factory in Fitzgerald, Ga. “We save lives,” Robinson said of his part of the work that has saved millions of children globally.

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  • Economy

The Georgia factory making emergency food for children worldwide is back working for USAID

Mana Nutrition turns Georgia peanuts into a paste that has saved millions of children's lives around the world. The nonprofit's on again/off again relationship with USAID is back on.

March 04, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
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