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"It's dramatic in many countries," UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima told AFP. "I need to sound the alarm so that it's very clear that this is a big part (of AIDS relief funding). If it goes away, people are going to die."

In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy

Democratic Sen. Chris Coons criticizes Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid as immoral and illegal, expressing concerns about the irreversible impa...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by The Caravan’s Hartosh Singh Bal and Delhi University professor Tanvir Aeijaz. 

Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net), a web-based platform for predicting famine, went offline on 30 January 2025. The system had provided up-to-date data to predict and track food insecurity in nearly 30 countries in Africa, central America and Asia for 40 years. It was funded by the US…

A federal judge ordered the administration to temporarily lift the funding freeze

Subsidizing American farmers is not a valid justification for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Facilities have been forced to close as halt in funding impacts country’s donor-dependent health sector

US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk allege federal fraud in projects relating to diversity and climate change.