A groundbreaking trial aimed at transforming mental health care for pregnant and new mothers in lower-income countries has been stopped in its tracks in the wake of Donald Trump slashing US foreign aid, The Independent has learned.
The pioneering project in India was looking at how to make the best help available to women from pregnancy through the first year of their babies’ lives, to address what experts have described as a “silent burden” for millions of women in a report commissioned by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
