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The Ripple Effect: USAID Freeze and Its Devastating Impact on Ethiopia
22 Feb 2025 23:05 GMT
theguardian
Fred Harter in Addis Ababa
Fri 21 Feb 2025 00.00 ES
Ethiopia previously held the position of the largest beneficiary of United States aid in sub-Saharan Africa until funding was suspended by Donald Trump last month. This decision has …
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“We have to go back to the basics”: A testing time for African health systems
22 Feb 2025 08:06 GMT
… health and medicine. EXCERPTS:
The Reporter: Can you tell us about the African … you can use it for HIV/AIDS, you can … researchers who develop new drugs and vaccines were educated … not eradicated [the disease].
The Ethiopian health system has improved but …
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African Union tectonics shift after summit
21 Feb 2025 13:50 GMT
… prize position for Djibouti
"Djibouti is a small … Horn of Africa.
"If effort and desire is added in improving Ethiopia … , the World Health Organization and skipping the … "Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations.…
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‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia
21 Feb 2025 05:22 GMT
A vast shipment of food stranded in containers risks rotting before it reaches millions of hungry people. Deliveries of life-saving medicines to remote rural clinics are paused. And thousands of HIV patients and sexual violence survivors are abruptly cut …
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African church organizations 'devastated' amid USAID shutdown, call for dialogue on program cuts
19 Feb 2025 17:37 GMT
… being in Africa: Ethiopia, Congo, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria.
USAID … HIV/AIDS held hope for completely erasing the disease … programs officer at the African Jesuit AIDS Network, or … of mobile medical clinics and grounding of community health workers. …
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Coface: USAID Faces Economic Fallout as Trump Freezes Foreign Aid
22 Feb 2025 09:14 GMT
… famine, the spread of diseases like HIV and Ebola, and the … groups in countries like Somalia. The potential impact of … , could further strain global health initiatives, though the Gates … especially in negotiations over the African Growth and Opportunity Act …
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As US exits foreign aid, who will fill the gap?
22 Feb 2025 06:36 GMT
… global health, money that has funded treatment of HIV and … Ntusi, CEO of the South African Medical Research Council.
U.S. … for upgrading livestock production in Ethiopia, fighting malaria in Gambia … combat and control deadly diseases and address hunger and …
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Republican or Democrat, ending USAID is bad
21 Feb 2025 02:27 GMT
With the United States Agency for International Development ripped to pieces, CDC censorship and other ‘America-first’ policies, we seem to be entering an end to an era — the era of public health. Rapid globalization and urbanization have morphed public …
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Foreign aid freeze: Nigeria’s US average $1bn annual receipt under threat
20 Feb 2025 23:12 GMT
… especially the aid-dependent African nations, including Nigeria … .35 billion, Jordan, Ethiopia, Palestinian territories, Sudan … many HIV/AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral drugs are … areas such as fighting diseases, maternal health and child nutrition.
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What Trump's USAID freeze means for the rest of the world
20 Feb 2025 21:50 GMT
… world, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda.
Affected programs … with HIV/AIDS, and fighting infectious disease … family health house where she received medical treatment … trying to tackle illegal mining and drug trafficking.
The council …