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"Over the past two months, the United States has made financial commitments that hint at a limited return to global health and humanitarian assistance partnerships, after the abrupt severing of many of those relationships a year and a half ago." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/health/trump-health-aid-state-department.html #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #Gavi #immunizations #vaccines #UNICEF #food #nutrition #ebola #HIV #PEPFAR #USAID #USpol

"Asked at a Congressional hearing about appropriations for family planning in May 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: 'There's no plan to spend that money. We're not going to be in that business globally. We're not going to do it.'" https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-118041/family-planning-birth-control-condoms-aid-cuts-rubio #healthcare #GlobalHealth #USAID #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #CHW #midwives #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #contraception #FamilyPlanning

"A year later, people have plowed through savings, cashed out retirement funds and moved in with friends and relatives. Former U.S.A.I.D. workers who have done informal surveys estimate that less than half have found full-time work, with many making less than before. An estimated third are unemployed. Others are in part-time work." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/politics/usaid-former-employees.html #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #USAID #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #development #DOGE #USpol #workers

"...the data showed sharp decreases in the numbers of people newly tested, diagnosed and treated for H.I.V., declines that will have long-term consequences, several public health experts and patient advocates warned." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/health/hiv-testing-treatment-data-pepfar.html #healthcare #PublicHealth #PEPFAR #HIV #prevention #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #USpol