Trump says ‘male circumcision in Mozambique’ is a ‘scam.’ What’s the program about?
South African boys from a rural area are briefed by an health worker from Doctors Without Borders before undergoing medical circumcision as a form of…
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On Thursday word came: No more USAID funds for a clinic that gets HIV meds to kids
Young men pose for pictures in front of HIV posters in Ethiopia. Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images/Corbis News hide caption toggle…
Musk says work to stop Ebola was accidentally cut but restored. Experts raise doubts
A member of a medical team at Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, administers a dose of a trial Ebola vaccine to a patient on…
A respected U.S. famine warning system is ‘currently unavailable.’ What’s the impact?
Ethiopians wait for their ration of food supplies in February. The U.N.’s World Hunger Programme reports that in Ethiopia, “nearly 16 million people are food…
Trump officials will put 4,700 USAID employees on leave and eliminate 1,600 jobs
In early February, the signage was removed from the headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. — one of many…
Why the good news about the mpox outbreak of 2025 isn’t really good after all
Lesions can be seen on this mpox patient in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of an outbreak in Africa. Glody Murhabazi/AFP via Getty…
Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned this week
Dean Karlan, professor of economics and finance at Northwestern University and former chief economist for USAID, in his office at Northwestern on February 25 —…
The Trump administration kills nearly all USAID programs
LoveYourself, a nonprofit providing free HIV testing and treatment services in the Philippines, has suspended services due to the Trump administrations freeze of foreign aid.…
Judge tells Trump administration it has less than 2 days to resume USAID funding
A cargo container in Manila bears signage for the U.S. government’s humanitarian agency USAID. The Trump administration suspended most USAID projects; a judge is now…