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News Articles: USAID

China's first batch of emergency humanitarian aid to Myanmar is loaded onto an airplane in Beijing in March 2025. In response to a request from the Myanmar government, China gave emergency humanitarian aid to support earthquake relief efforts.

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  • Global Health

China and the U.S. alter foreign aid strategies

China's foreign aid strategy has shifted in the last few decades Now its model may be the one the U.S. is adopting even as China moves away from it.

February 24, 2026
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
A nurse performs surgery on a trachoma patient in Ethiopia. Trachoma is considered a neglected tropical disease, caused by a bacterial infection, and can lead to blindness.

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  • Global Health

The fight to beat neglected tropical diseases was going well. 2025 could change that

The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.

December 10, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert
The warehouse in Geel, Belgium, where contraceptives purchased by the U.S. have been sitting since July. An additional supply has been identified in another Belgian warehouse; a local official said due to improper storage those products are largely unusable.

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  • Global Health

A stock of U.S.-bought birth control, meant for sub-Saharan Africa, goes bad in Belgium

Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives have been stored in Belgium since the U.S. froze foreign aid. A local official says some products were stored improperly and are largely unusable.

November 15, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Participants who'd been enrolled in the now canceled program to lift people out of poverty in the Palabek Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda as well as in the local community: (from left) Santa Angwech, 26, a single mother of three who takes care of two other children; Michael Obwoya, 49, an elder in the refugee camp; Florence Amungo, 34, who'd hoped to raise pigs to help support her family.

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  • Global Health

They were promised a lifeline to 'graduate' from poverty. Then it was taken away

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.

November 02, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
Doctor Alawode Oladele speaks with Joglis, a Cuban refugee, about the results of his and his wife's health screening at the DeKalb County tuberculosis clinic on August 5, 2025.

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  • Health

'A dangerous inflection point': Georgia experts say control of tuberculosis hinges on robust funding

It would take a lot more people getting sick from TB for the U.S. to reach the crisis other countries face. But federal budget cuts could lead to a spike in cases, and cases have already gone up. 

October 03, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Sandals outside a brothel on the Uganda-Kenya highway. Among the many losses after the U.S. aid cuts: free condoms and PrEP for sex workers.

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  • Global Health

Aid cuts hit Uganda hard. With worry and grit, it's finding new ways to save lives

Uganda is one of the countries that's greatly affected by the reduction of U.S. foreign aid. Here's how the health care system is responding — with trepidation, innovation and resilience.

September 19, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Simpson and
  • Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson
A view of a warehouse of Kuehne+Nagel in Geel, Belgium, which houses U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million. The U.S. State Department has stated that the stocks would be sent to France to be destroyed.

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  • Global Health

The U.S. said it would burn $9.7 million of birth control. Its fate is still unclear

Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Aid groups say it's not too late to save them.

September 17, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
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

Georgia factory making food for starving kids expecting new government order

Mana Nutrition in Fitzgerald, Ga., was among the first places to feel the downstream effects of DOGE cuts. Now the nonprofit is looking forward to new orders from the U.S. State Department.

August 14, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A federal appeals court rules the Trump administration can withhold $4 billion approved by Congress for global health programs and more than $6 billion for HIV and AIDS prevention.

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  • Global Health

President Trump can continue to withhold billions in foreign aid, court rules

A federal appeals court handed President Trump a victory on Wednesday. The court ruled the administration can continue to freeze or terminate billions of dollars that Congress approved in foreign aid.

August 13, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
A production line at Edesia Nutrition's Rhode Island factory. As the Trump administration issued stop work and halted payments, the company had to cut back on production and distribution of the therapeutic food it makes, a peanut-y paste called Plumpy'Nut. Last week word came that the U.S. government will resume ordering the product, which is designed to bring malnourished children back from the brink.

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  • Global Health

Why the company that makes Plumpy'Nut is 'just over the moon!'

The therapeutic food is designed to bring malnourished kids back from the brink. A new order from the U.S. after months of mixed signals is good news for the Rhode Island factory that makes it.

August 11, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A girl sits behind humanitarian aid boxes delivered by UNICEF at a temporary camp in the town of Tabqa, Syria, on Aug. 4, 2017. The rescission bill cut U.S. funds for this U.N. agency that works with children.

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  • Global Health

What will rescission do to foreign aid? Details are murky. Here's what we found out

Congress approved the clawing back of $7.9 billion in foreign aid pledges. Who ends up losing out?

July 31, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
Fans wave flags, the U.S. Stars and Stripes and Britain's Union Jack, at Wembley Stadium, London, July 13, 1985, at the end of the Live Aid famine relief concert for Africa. (AP Photo/Joe Schaber)

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  • News

This concert was the soundtrack to soft power. Is it the swan song of foreign aid?

A new documentary and musical tell the story of Live Aid’s impact and how the musicians who organized the event reshaped attitudes toward international development.

July 17, 2025
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By:
  • Kristi York Wooten
On April 24, Kenyan pharmacist Joseph Njer Airo inspects boxes of antiretroviral drugs labeled "USAID," from the last donation before the funding cuts.

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  • Global Health

Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts

A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.

July 01, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert
Tributes are placed beneath the covered seal of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at their headquarters in Washington, D.C., on February 7, the day that President Donald Trump called for the agency to be shuttered. July 1 marks the agency's official demise.

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  • Global Health

Farewell to USAID: Reflections on the agency that President Trump dismantled

July 1 is the official end date for the agency that President Trump dismantled. We talk to four former top officials about this milestone event.

July 01, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Ugandans in Kabale line up for treatment for river blindness, a "neglected tropical disease" caused by a parasitic roundworm and transmitted by the bite of the black fly. The drug ivermectin, donated by a pharmaceutical company, kills the roundworm larvae. But now there's a freeze on the U.S. aid program that distributes the drug.

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  • Global Health

'Neglected tropical diseases' now face even more neglect

U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.

June 05, 2025
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  • Patrick Adams
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