Global Health
“31 of 41 of the International Rescue Committee’s stabilization centers — “in-patient centers for the most severely malnourished children — received termination notices from the Trump administration. Some of those terminations have since been rescinded, but a lack of payment from the U.S. government has hobbled the ability for programs to resume normal operations. Some centers are shuttered, others are severely understaffed and others are running out of specialized food.”
NPR, 03/10/2025
“[T]here have been no confirmed payments to any partners in the Middle East” to fund aid programs intended to combat the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. A program to provide life-saving nutrition treatment has been “significantly scaled down,” organizations that have already purchased medical supplies cannot afford to move them into Gaza, and field hospitals are only able to provide basic services with limited staff.”
AP, 03/07/2025
A USAID agency official estimated that the pause in foreign aid and delays in approving lifesaving assistance will result in “18 million additional cases of malaria per year,” “200,000 children paralyzed with polio annually,” “one million children not treated for severe acute malnutrition,” and “more than 28,000 new cases of such infectious diseases as Ebola and Marburg every year.”
New York Times, 03/03/2025
In Senegal, the biggest malaria project that “distributed bed nets and medication to tens of thousands of people” was shut down. The project also provided “maternal and child health and nutrition services.”
AP, 03/01/2025
Programs to prevent the spread of tuberculosis were canceled in Pakistan, India, and 22 other countries. The programs had previously received waivers to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Devex, 02/28/2025
“A $90 million contract … for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would have protected 53 million people” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
In Yemen, a project “that supported community health workers’ efforts to go door-to-door seeking malnourished children” has been canceled. One in five children in Yemen are critically underweight due to the civil war.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A project in Nigeria providing 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with treatment for severe and acute malnutrition” has been canceled. “The termination means 77 health facilities have completely stopped treating children with severe acute malnutrition, putting 60,000 children under the age of 5 at immediate risk of death.”
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A program to protect more than 20 million people in 10 countries in Africa from malaria has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A project providing H.I.V. and tuberculosis treatment to 46,000 people in Uganda” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“While the Trump administration issued a waiver to allow USAID to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda last month, partner organizations were not promptly paid for their work, and USAID’s own efforts were sharply curtailed compared to past efforts to fight Ebola outbreaks.” A USAID team of 60 staffers working on disease response was cut to six staffers.
The Washington Post, 02/26/2025
Amref Health Africa—which put 692 staff on unpaid leave and suspended 20 programs due to the aid freeze—has “since received waivers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue some work covering five programs largely related to HIV in Tanzania and Kenya.” The new waivers are temporary while the U.S. government completes a 90-day review of development and humanitarian aid programs.
Devex, 02/21/2025
In Uganda, at least one health center outside Masaka is running low on HIV testing kits. The center is now only testing people they consider most at risk of being infected, turning away others who might have HIV.
Devex, 02/20/2025
The Family Planning Association of Malawi had to recall staff in the field, preventing contact with an estimated 13,000 to 14,000 people over the next three months. The Association provides services beyond family planning, including cervical cancer screening and treatment.
Devex, 02/13/2025
Clinical trials for two experimental HIV vaccines, developed by a consortium of researchers from eight African countries with enrolled volunteers from South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda have been halted. The consortium does not know how it will continue to pay for cold storage of the vaccines.
The Telegraph, 02/12/2025
Antimalarial campaigns, which must be conducted before the rainy season to be effective, have been postponed. “In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children.” 3.2 million Ugandans will be at risk. In Kenya, 1.45 million people will be left unprotected. In Ethiopia, 2.6 million people won’t receive nets.
Devex, 02/11/2025; Global Health Council, 02/05/2025; The New York Times, 02/01/2025
The loss of U.S. programs for women and girls in South Asia will result in 1,200 additional maternal deaths and 109,000 more unintended pregnancies between 2025 and 2028. The UN Population Fund had to lay off more than 1,700 female health workers, mostly midwives, in Afghanistan.
Devex, 02/06/2025
Surveillance for drug-resistant tuberculosis worldwide has been halted, even as the United States navigates a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas.
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
“Medical supplies, including drugs to stop hemorrhages in pregnant women and rehydration salts that treat life-threatening diarrhea in toddlers, cannot reach villages in Zambia because the trucking companies transporting them were paid through a suspended supply project of USAID.”
AP, 02/03/2025; ProPublica, 01/31/2025
More than 2.4 million anti-malaria bed nets are stuck in production facilities in Asia, rather than being put to use in sub-Saharan Africa. Contracts for eight million more nets are also on hold.
The New York Times, 02/01/2025
Monitoring of avian flu has been suspended, despite its spread to 49 countries, including the United States. One American has already been killed by the flu on home soil.
Congressional Letter to USAID, 01/31/2025
15 Amref Health Africa programs remain suspended. “[I]n Malawi, 108,443 babies and children will go without full immunizations if funding doesn’t resume, and 100,000 women will go without nutrition-related counseling, support, and antenatal care visits…In Kenya, the organization needs funding to provide nutrition support for 175,995 children.”
Devex, 02/21/2025
“An organization providing support for those affected by HIV/AIDS across Africa only received a limited waiver to continue doing so, meaning children living with an HIV-positive parent no longer being regularly tested for the virus.”
Devex, 02/17/2025
In Afghanistan, 191 health clinics, which are the sole source of lifesaving maternal healthcare in rural areas, will be closed.” Over 200 clinic staffers, many of whom are female health workers, were suspended.
Devex, 02/13/2025; Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
In Kenya, a nonprofit implementing partner that manages the procurement, storage, and distribution of HIV medicines was unable to continue its work despite receiving a waiver to resume “life-saving” work because USAID’s payment systems were down.
Devex, 02/12/2025
USAID’s Global Health Supply Chain Program has been forced to leave $150 million of health products in warehouses, with another $88.5 million of supplies stuck in transit. “Not delivering those commodities on time… could result in more than half a million deaths from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unmet reproductive health needs — including 215,000 pediatric deaths.”
Devex, 02/12/2025
“$150 million in health products are stranded in warehouses, with $88.5 million in transit at risk of expiring, being damaged, or stolen… if those medical products are not delivered, as many as 566,000 people — including 215,000 children — could die from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unmet reproductive health needs.”
Devex, 02/11/2025
“In Bangladesh, a cholera treatment trial has been abandoned, leaving patients with no plan for next steps.”
The New York Times, 02/09/2025
In Gaza, tens of millions of dollars earmarked for water infrastructure, mobile hospital units and psychological support programs have been suspended.
The New York Times, 02/07/2025
In Gaza, the International Medical Corps “may no longer be able to sustain an emergency department that treats up to 200 patients a day, an outpatient department that serves up to 2,000 people a day and a childbirth unit that delivers roughly 20 babies a day.”
The New York Times, 02/07/2025
“A malaria vaccine study in Britain has stranded volunteers who had received doses but now lack medical follow-ups for potential complications.” A clinical trial for a malaria treatment in children in Mozambique was halted.
The New York Times, 02/09/2025; The New York Times, 02/06/2025
In Pakistan, “62 health facilities located amid refugee villages will lose access to lifesaving maternal healthcare.”
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
10 US-funded studies focused on tuberculosis, nutrition, fungal infection surveillance, and the risk of viral spillover from animals to human have been paused.
Science, 02/05/2025
600,000 people in civil-war torn Sudan are at “grave risk of catching and spreading” cholera, measles, and malaria as a result of the freeze.
AP, 02/03/2025
Efforts to combat a deadly outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania have been suspended.
Congressional Letter to USAID, 01/31/2025
PEPFAR will be unable to support cervical cancer screening, diagnoses, and treatment services for women living with HIV. Approximately 7,164 women will not be screened and approximately 363 diagnoses of cervical cancer or precancerous lesions will be missed every day.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
In Ivory Coast, “approximately 516 health care facilities have been forced to” close.
New York Times, 03/08/2025
In Uganda, contact tracing efforts and surveillance for the Ebola outbreak have been “severely hindered without U.S. assistance.” The termination of $1.6 million in grants has made it difficult for the Ugandan government to procure “sufficient laboratory supplies, diagnostic equipment and protective gear for medical workers and people tracing contacts.”
New York Times, 03/06/2025
The International Rescue Committee in South Sudan shut down a project that provided access to “health care and nutrition services to more than 115,000 people.”
AP, 03/01/2025
Funding to support dozens of medical clinics in Sudan providing IVs, oxygen, and emergency feeding treatments to infants and children has been terminated. Without constant care, these children will die within 4-8 hours. The program had previously received a waiver to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Devex, 02/28/2025
Four of five U.S. contracts for Ebola-related work in Uganda have been canceled. “The contracts funded Ebola screening at airports and protective equipment for health workers, and helped prevent transmission by survivors of the disease.”
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“All of the operating costs and 10 percent of the drug budget of the Global Drug Facility, the main supply channel for tuberculosis medications, which last year provided tuberculosis treatment to nearly three million people, including 300,000 children” have been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“Pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal” have been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
20 civil relief groups providing healthcare (including HIV/AIDS treatment and testing) to nearly 140,000 refugees in camps along the Thai-Myanmar border are at risk of being suspended. Patients in need of treatment are being turned away.
The New York Times, 01/31/2025; Radio Free Asia, 01/29/2025
A project providing “drugs and other medical supplies, health care, treatment of malnutrition programming, and water and sanitation for 115,000 displaced or affected by the conflict in northern Ethiopia” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A program managed by The President’s Malaria Initiative, which conducted mosquito control in 21 countries and protected 12.5 million people last year, has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A project providing H.I.V. and tuberculosis treatment to 46,000 people in Uganda” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
The Demographic and Health Surveys program—which were “the only sources of information in many countries about maternal and child health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and H.I.V. infections, among many other health indicators”—has been terminated.
The New York Times, 02/26/2025
Services will be suspended for 679,936 pregnant women receiving antiretroviral treatments to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission to their children.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
In Nairobi, Kenya, the X-ray machine used to diagnose tuberculosis at the Mathare North Health Center—which serves some of Nairobi’s poorest population—is no longer running. The personnel trained to operate it were supported by USAID grants and are unable to continue working.
The New York Times, 02/21/2025
“A collection of small organizations in Sudan…have had to shut down a water and sanitation program that previously was reaching 1.6 million displaced by conflict.”
Devex, 02/17/2025
Ten health clinics offering free care to displaced persons in northern Syria have closed. Doctors of the World, which runs several clinics in northern Syria, has cut its daily consultations down from 5,000 to 500.
AP, 02/13/2025
A 71-year-old woman died after her oxygen supply was cut off and she was unable to return to a USAID-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The IRC has had to close seven of its nine hospitals supporting 80,000 people along the Myanmar border.
The Telegraph, 02/11/2025
“In South Africa, researchers were forced to shut down an H.I.V. prevention trial, leaving women with experimental implants inside their bodies and without ongoing medical oversight.”
The New York Times, 02/09/2025
“In Uganda, children enrolled in a tuberculosis treatment trial were cut off from potentially lifesaving medication.” Trials for youth in Peru and South Africa were also shuttered.
The New York Times, 02/09/2025; The New York Times, 02/06/2025
“In Nepal, a U.S.-based nonprofit named the La Isla Network put on hold its work on chronic kidney disease, a deadly condition believed to be linked to heat stress and dehydration that has emerged as a threat to manual laborers in hot countries.”
Science, 02/05/2025
In Turkey, “11 service units providing maternal healthcare will be forced to close, leaving 28,900 people without access to care.”
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
In Myanmar, delivery of malaria drugs and rapid tests have been frozen. The aid freeze also devastated local health organizations, leaving no workers left to distribute the supplies even if they arrive.
The New York Times, 02/01/2025
The United States is not participating in or supporting the response to an outbreak of Ebola in Kampala, Uganda – a city of 1.9 million with a large international airport.
Congressional Letter to USAID, 01/31/2025
Every day, 222,333 people (including 7,445 children under the age of 15) will lose access to antiretroviral treatments for HIV/AIDS supplied by PEPFAR.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
“Smart4TB, the main research consortium working on prevention, diagnostics and treatment for tuberculosis” has been shuttered.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A refugee from Myanmar died two weeks after being taken off USAID-funded dialysis. The International Rescue Committee has also been forced to withdraw from a healthcare facility in the country and has yet to be granted a waiver to continue operating.
The Guardian, 02/25/2025
1,471 infants will acquire new HIV infections every day.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
The International Organization for Migration is “unable to provide healthcare and cash assistance to 925 Rohingya refugees” living as refugees in Indonesia. These refugees are entirely dependent on cash assistance because, as refugees, they are not allowed to work.
Reuters, 03/06/2025
In Ethiopia, the Ministry of Health was “forced to terminate the contract of 5,000 workers across the country focused on HIV and malaria prevention, vaccinations and helping vulnerable women deal with the trauma of war.”
AP, 03/01/2025
In Bangladesh, after an NGO was forced to shut down maternal health services at the world’s largest refugee camp, only 40-50% of pregnant women there now make it to a hospital bed to give birth. Previously, the figure was 95%.
CBC, 03/08/2025
“[I]n Lesotho, Eswatini, and Tanzania, a program supporting more than 350,000 people on HIV treatment — including 10,000 children and 10,000 HIV-positive pregnant mothers — was terminated.” The program had previously received a waiver to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Devex, 02/28/2025
“A $131 million grant to UNICEF’s polio immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A contract to manage and distribute $34 million worth of medical supplies in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthlong H.I.V. treatments, 750,000 H.I.V. tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 antimalaria bed nets” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A project in six West African countries providing “more than 35 million people with the medicine to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025