Hill March 2, 2025
The Trump administration’s decision to end almost all foreign aid spending from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is poised to plunge global health into chaos.
The contract terminations announced Wednesday will end grants for HIV treatments and prevention, tuberculosis, polio, malaria, Ebola and numerous other diseases and conditions. Nutrition assistance programs for infants in developing countries have also been halted, organizations said.
Nearly 5,800 projects funded by USAID have been terminated, ending the hope that contracts previously frozen might have been restarted.
“This reckless and unilateral move will cost millions of lives around the world,” said the Global Health Council, an alliance of nonprofit organizations and companies that receive U.S. foreign aid funding, in...
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