Emergency fundraisers offer a lifeline to groups that lost foreign aid
Unlock Aid, which advocates for U.S. Agency for International Development reforms, started the Foreign Aid Bridge Fund last ...
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Q&A: How Trump’s USAID freeze halted the effort to develop an effective HIV vaccine in Africa
Glenda Gray, program director of a research consortium, talked with STAT about the impact of the funding freeze on an HIV ...
Judge gives Trump administration two days to release billions of dollars in blocked foreign aid
A federal judge has given the Trump administration less than two days to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
USAID’s apparent demise and the US withdrawal from WHO put millions of lives worldwide at risk and imperil US national security
These efforts have brought immense financial as well as health benefits to the U.S. and the rest of the world. Some economists estimate that the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, created in 1988, ...
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Is Africa a U.S. Experimentation Zone?
On March 7, 2025, the Kenyan Court of Appeal will decide whether to lift the ban on promoting genetically modified (GM) foods ...
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Chinese virologists warn of new Covid-19 type virus
A Chinese team of virologists have found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19, a media ...
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Federal cuts loom as General Assembly passes revised budget and adjourns
Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he appreciates consensus for tax relief, but says it should take a different form. He says he ...
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New bat virus may infect humans via same route as Covid, warn Chinese virologists
The new virus comes from the merbecovirus subgenus, which also includes the virus that causes Middle East respiratory ...
Chinese virologists say new bat coronavirus could infect humans via same route as COVID-19
Newly discovered bat coronavirus shares entry protein with COVID-19, but poses lower risk of human transmission, researchers ...
Trump’s climate-change moves, other foreign policy shifts pose challenge for Caribbean
Invasive brown algae is destroying their sandy coastlines, emanating toxic gasses that are killing corals and turning hotel guests away, while increasingly deadly tropical storms and uncharacteristic ...
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COVID-19 should have taught us that undermining global health is a risky proposition
Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care ...
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With the move to freeze foreign aid, the international development sector stands at a crossroads, HKS experts say
The Trump administration’s move to freeze U.S. foreign aid and development work is a seismic event. International development ...