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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

‘Ignorance and cruelty’: former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge cuts

A worker person writes on a stack of boxes labelled 'USAID'
Workers at a hospital in Lodwar, Kenya, take inventory of the last boxes of drugs delivered by USAID, on 1 April 2025. Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images

Nicholas Enrich was working in Kenya in 2003 when the then US president George W Bush signed a landmark $15bn, five-year commitment to combat HIV, the largest international health commitment by any nation to fight a single disease.

It was the peak of the epidemic, and for the young American government aid worker “it clicked that my government was ready to join the fight against HIV and I was excited to be a part of that”, he says.

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