Author: Stephanie Nolen
Published on: 01/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Global Health Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid Advertisement You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Lifesaving health initiatives and medical research projects have shut down around the world in response to the Trump administration’s 90-day pause on foreign aid and stop-work orders. In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children The programs that have frozen or folded over the past six days supported frontline care for infectious disease, providing treatments and preventive measures that help avert millions of deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases. The State Department and U.S.A.I.D. Did not respond to requests for comment. There will now be no one to take custody of millions of dollars’ worth of supplies for vital oxygen systems purchased for health clinics in some of the world’s poorest countries. An organization called the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh laid off more than 1,000 employees this week. If the waiver does not apply to their work, many nonprofit groups will not have enough funds to pay their employees or maintain supplies. Already, organizations that rely on U.S.A.I.D. Funds have not been able access any money. More than 50 million children received preventative drugs before the rainy season last year. The delivery of rapid tests and malaria drugs into Myanmar has been frozen. Some organizations now have no workers left to distribute the supplies even if they were to arrive. In Zambia, U.S.A.I.D. Supports the bulk distribution of public health products. It uses the private trucking industry to move medicines from a central supply depot to seven regional hubs. The stop-work order was issued last Saturday, all of the vehicles transporting health products have been stopped. Similar U.s.-funded systems, now frozen, also moved major share of basic medical supplies. Stephanie Nolen is a global health reporter for The Times. Scientists say it actually bolsters the immune response. Bird Flu’s New Phase: A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. The outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks.

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