Trump’s cuts come for food banks
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Here’s how the Trump administration has changed health policy in its first 100 days
Enlarge this image People hold handmade signs at a Stand up for Science rally protesting the Trump administration’s science policies and federal job cuts on…
Where’s Plumpy’Nut? A lifesaving food for malnourished kids is caught up in U.S. cuts
Plumpy’Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island. Has the “ready-to-use therapeutic food” — credited with an 80 to 90% recovery rate…
Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills
For more than two months, Mary Mayongana, 42, hasn’t been able to consistently take her HIV medication. She says she feels weak and has developed…
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Reverend Billiance Chondwe of the Somone Community Center, a branch of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Zambia, says that many in his congregation have fallen…
Dozens of USAID contracts were canceled last weekend. Here’s what happened
Afghan men load up food packets that were distributed as aid by the World Food Programme. Last weekend, all USAID contracts supporting humanitarian aid from…
How the War on Drugs got us… blueberries
Enlarge this image A bowl of blueberries which have been imported from Peru to the United States. Erika Beras/NPR hide caption toggle caption Erika Beras/NPR…
Mobile medical units, clean water needed in Myanmar quake zone, aid official says
Rescuers search for survivors trapped in the collapsed Sky Villa Condominium building in Mandalay on March 29, a day after an earthquake struck central Myanmar.…
A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: ‘No one prioritizes women’s lives.’
A midwife assesses a pregnant woman at a mobile health clinic in Afghanistan. In the wake of the freeze of USAID, some 200 clinics in…
USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees
“USAID” is etched onto a covering where signage used to be at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via…