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Tuberculosis diagnosis treatment, if that funding is cut off, it will greatly affect the program because there won’t be any diagnosis of such cases and then the medicines, people can’t afford them,
One thing we want to ascertain is that nobody must stop taking ARVs,
These are families who were anticipating they could get support. … This will stop. … There are children who are HIV-positive, and we always collaborate with their facilities to ensure that they are viral-suppressed. Now they’ll be of high viral load,
We’re likely to see much of the foreign assistance in the region understood through a migration lens,
This isn’t just a funding cut—it’s part of a rollback on LGBTQI+ rights,
The crisis is only going to worsen,
the shelter said in a statement Trust isn’t something you can turn on and off in a conflict zone,
said Ayalde, who started her diplomatic career at the U.S. Agency for International Development and now serves on the board of two non-profit organizations who also saw their funding cut Champagne bottles are uncorking right now in Beijing,
said Adam Isacson, who has studied foreign aid trends for years and directs the defense oversight program at the Washington Office on Latin America We don't want to see people die and the like,
The U.S. government is not a charity."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the pause on billions of U.S. dollars of foreign aid Thursday, stating Because otherwise you don't get your money,
We must proceed very carefully over the next few weeks to mitigate the impact of this funding uncertainty on refugees and displaced people, on our operations and on our teams,
he said in an internal email accessed by The Guardian news outlet We acknowledge the uncertainty you are experiencing and apologise deeply for the inconvenience. Aurum is committed to seeking solutions together with other partners to address the challenges as soon as possible,
By suspending foreign development assistance, the Trump administration is threatening the lives and futures of communities in crisis, and abandoning the United States’ long-held bipartisan approach to foreign assistance which supports people based on need, regardless of politics,
Maxman said in a statement It’s not hyperbolic to say that if a child gets malaria [and] shows up to the clinic that used to be run by the USAID programme, that clinic doesn’t exist any more. It’s closed and they don’t get medicine for malaria, that child could die,
President Trump stated clearly that the United States is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people,
according to a statement from State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce I think these pauses may end up changing the relationship other countries have with US assistance,
If you don’t see it as reliable … it could be cut off one day to the next. You might still want it, but how you think about it and how you interact with it might look quite different. How it makes you think about America might also change to some extent,
It could be anything from basically 99 percent of programmes get restored at the end of a review period … or it could be a much more sweeping realignment of the portfolio. I think at this point, we really have no idea where this is headed,
It’s no exaggeration to say that we have democracy in Moldova, in part thanks to American financial support,
Valeriu Pasa, the chairman of the Chisinau-based think-tank WatchDog, said in a statement on Wednesday
