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Some staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development raced against the moment their computer access would be shut ...
July 1 is the official end date for the agency that President Trump dismantled. We talk to four former top officials about ...
Tessie San Martin talks about leading the Durham global research firm after losing half its revenue and why sustainable ...
“Elon Musk has left Washington, but he leaves a legacy of suffering because Trump let him dismantle USAID, which did enormous ...
There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 years ago that we experienced the largest epidemic of Ebola. U.S. World ...
The African nation of Uganda is in the middle of a deadly Ebola outbreak. The United States was providing on-the-ground humanitarian assistance, until President Trump pulled the plug on USAID.
The U.S. plans to cut funding for Gavi, which provides lifesaving vaccinations for millions of people in the world’s poorest countries, a USAID document shows.
We faced a risk of that in the 2010s with Ebola, but fortunately — partly because of USAID — we were able to primarily stop it in West Africa. And then Covid-19, of course, which did come to ...
Former USAID chief Andrew Natsios told Salon that the Trump-Musk cuts will directly and immediately cost ... the agency supplied assistance for projects like containing the spread of Ebola, ...
USAID’s role in Ebola containment has long been essential. During the 2014 West Africa outbreak—during which more than 11,000 people died—USAID oversaw training of local health-care workers, ...
Ex-USAID worker talks about emotional toll of firings, impact on family 03:23. Washington — A USAID deputy administrator has been put on leave after issuing memos that said that the organization ...
Musk’s assertion that his slash-and-burn assault on USAID had no negative impact on combating Ebola was disinformation. He was hiding the truth on a critical global health issue.