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The abrupt withdrawal of American funding has stranded millions of patients and will be felt by countries for years to come ...
Project Resource Optimization is connecting formerly US-funded aid projects – including one providing clean water in Nigeria ...
Ajay Das served as programme director for the Asia Foundation's Civil Society and Media programme for two and a half years.
Three U.S. Agency for International Development workers had brought food, medicine and governance reform to places where ...
The rating agency Fitch recognises that the suspension of US aid to Mozambique by USAID also had an impact on the foreign currency shortage ...
Multiple studies have estimated millions will die annually as a result of the Trump Administration’s closure of the ...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has officially closed its doors after President Donald Trump gradually ...
The cuts to USAID -- and the chaos that followed -- have “come with a body count” in Sudan said Tom Perriello, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan in the last year of the Biden administration from ...
USAID was created in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to provide aid around the world and its closing has drawn a lot of criticism, most recently by former presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush.
USAID cuts have caused more than 330,000 deaths worldwide, BU professor estimates By Angela Mathew Globe Correspondent,Updated July 1, 2025, 11:06 a.m.
Thanks to a hand from USAID, our maternal mortality rate over a 23-year period was cut almost in half, from 209 per 100,000 live births in 1993 to 114 per 100,000 live births in 2015.
The months-long drawdown of USAID reduced its staff by 83% — down from 10,000 employees to a few hundred — and resulted in stop-work orders for grantees of its funds, including in Sudan.