{"id":21816,"date":"2025-02-08T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21816"},"modified":"2025-02-08T08:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T08:26:28","slug":"with-aid-cutoff-trump-severs-a-lifeline-for-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21816","title":{"rendered":"With Aid Cutoff, Trump Severs a Lifeline for Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grief and \u201cdizzying chaos\u201d struck communities around the globe as networks for delivering medicine, nutrition and maternal care were abruptly shut down.<\/p>\n

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Funds from the world\u2019s richest nation once flowed from the largest global aid agency to an intricate network of small, medium and large organizations that delivered aid: H.I.V. medications for more than 20 million people; nutrition supplements for starving children; support for refugees, orphaned children and women battered by violence.<\/p>\n

Now, that network is unraveling. The Trump administration froze foreign aid for 90 days and has planned to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development to just 5 percent of its work force, although a federal judge paused the plan<\/a> on Friday. Given wars and strapped economies, other governments or philanthropies are unlikely to make up for the shortfall, and recipient nations are too hamstrung by debt to manage on their own.<\/p>\n

Even the largest organizations are unlikely to emerge unscathed. In interviews, more than 25 aid workers, former U.S.A.I.D. employees and officials from aid organizations described a system thrown into mass confusion and chaos.<\/p>\n

A tower of blocks may take hours to build, but \u201cyou pull one of those blocks out and it collapses,\u201d said Mitchell Warren, executive director of the H.I.V. prevention organization AVAC, which relied on U.S.A.I.D. for 38 percent of its funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ve gotten rid of all of the staff, all of the institutional memory, all of the trust and confidence, not only in the United States but in the dozens of countries in which U.S.A.I.D. works,\u201d Mr. Warren said. \u201cThose things have taken decades to build up but two weeks to destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Small organizations, some with as few as 10 employees, have folded. Some midsize organizations have furloughed up to 80 percent of their employees. Even large organizations \u2014 including Catholic Relief Services and FHI 360, among the biggest recipients of U.S.A.I.D. funding \u2014 have announced large layoffs<\/a> or furloughs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Grief and \u201cdizzying chaos\u201d struck communities around the globe as networks for delivering medicine, nutrition and maternal care were abruptly shut down.Funds from the world\u2019s richest nation once flowed from the largest global aid agency to an intricate network of small, medium and large organizations that delivered aid: H.I.V. medications for more than 20 million people; nutrition supplements for starving children; support for refugees, orphaned children and women battered by violence.Now, that network is unraveling. The Trump administration froze foreign aid for 90 days and has planned to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development to just 5 percent of its work force, although a federal judge paused the plan on Friday. Given wars and strapped economies, other governments or philanthropies are unlikely to make up for the shortfall, and recipient nations are too hamstrung by debt to manage on their own.Even the largest organizations are unlikely to emerge unscathed. In interviews, more than 25 aid workers, former U.S.A.I.D. employees and officials from aid organizations described a system thrown into mass confusion and chaos.A tower of blocks may take hours to build, but \u201cyou pull one of those blocks out and it collapses,\u201d said Mitchell Warren, executive director of the H.I.V. prevention organization AVAC, which relied on U.S.A.I.D. for 38 percent of its funding.\u201cYou\u2019ve gotten rid of all of the staff, all of the institutional memory, all of the trust and confidence, not only in the United States but in the dozens of countries in which U.S.A.I.D. works,\u201d Mr. Warren said. \u201cThose things have taken decades to build up but two weeks to destroy.\u201dSmall organizations, some with as few as 10 employees, have folded. Some midsize organizations have furloughed up to 80 percent of their employees. Even large organizations \u2014 including Catholic Relief Services and FHI 360, among the biggest recipients of U.S.A.I.D. funding \u2014 have announced large layoffs or furloughs.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21818,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21819,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21816\/revisions\/21819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}