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A Year After USAID’s Termination: The Impact Has Been ‘Devastating’

In the face of death and disease, global health workers struggle to keep hope alive.

Capital & Main · Mar 11

John Oliver on Trump’s dismantling of USAID: ‘What this administration has done is beyond cruel’

Last Week Tonight host examined the devastating impact of the demise of USAID, the primary federal agency for foreign aid

The Guardian - US · Mar 9

Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID

In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus was condemned by the god Zeus to spend eternity rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down, having to start anew every day.

The Conversation · Mar 5

Survivors of scam compounds abandoned on streets in growing crisis

US aid cuts mean victims are being turned away

The Independent UK · Feb 11

How USAID cuts are affecting the world

From health care to food security, the effects of slashing U.S. foreign aid are now being felt on the ground

Salon · Feb 9

With $48M in philanthropic backing, a division of USAID relaunches as nonprofit

A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated by Trump administration cuts last year was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit

The Independent UK · Feb 6

Elon Musk will be deposed along with DOGE staffers over USAID dismantling

Destruction of world's largest humanitarian programme was done without formal authority or official oversight, former USAID employees claim

The Independent UK · Feb 5

Judge orders Musk to sit for deposition over DOGE, USAID shutdown

There was "no alternative" to the depositions, the judge ruled.

Axios · Feb 5

Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds

Modelling suggests 5.4m children under five among those who could die if budgets of donor countries such as UK and US continue to be slashed

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3

Nearly 23 million extra deaths worldwide by 2030 as aid cuts bite, study says

The findings – published in the influential health journal The Lancet – show that Donald Trump’s closure of USAID could lead to more than 14m deaths alone

The Independent UK · Feb 2