The agency targeted by the Trump administration was a living example of tzedakah that saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Data clerks at facilities covered by USAID are not yet back at work, impacting data collection and quality control. The Ugandan President directed the release of UGX 6 billion for the rollout of ...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had officially canceled 83% of USAID’s contracts and that his agency will administer its few remaining programs. “The 5200 contracts that are now ...
Dr. Jimmy Opigo, who runs Uganda's malaria control programme, told The Associated Press that USAID stop-work orders issued in late January left him and others "focusing on disaster preparedness".
In Uganda, the rollback of USAID funding has made it hard to pay community health workers, leading to understaffing, said Dr. Luke Davis, a clinical epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health.
But the Trump administration's decision to terminate 90 per cent of USAID's foreign aid contracts has local health officials warning of catastrophe in some of the world's poorest communities. Dr.
USAID spent about $5 billion in food assistance globally in fiscal year 2023/24, with roughly $2 billion (or 41%) of that going to purchase and program U.S. commodities. When the Feed the Future ...
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