“The explosion of Ebola in Uganda took place the same day as freezing foreign help. Despite this, the waiver of help in the explosion was quickly restored, “said the Wired State Department in a statement. “This is a process. If mistakes are made, they will be marked if necessary and corrected, while trying to do the best for the American people. “
Other life -saving USAID programs seemingly awarded humanitarian exemptions encountered similar problems. At the beginning of this month, Wired informed that the program of preventing food and hunger remains inactive, despite the waiver, with many employees who have implemented a program that was launched or released. It’s still true today. “We have not been able to resume any actions yet,” says Payal Chandiramani, a spokesman for Chemonics, an international company implementing a vast part of the program.
Meanwhile, AIDS and HIV programs are also not resumed. The emergency president for AIDS Relief is one of the best known stories of USAID success, attributed to saving over 26 million human lives, since former President George W. Bush founded the program in 2003. At the same time, when the musk was kidding because of their USAID programs with Trump’s officials, Pepfar supporters gathered on the protest in Washington to pay attention to That he hit these programs. Despite receiving the dismissal, Pepfar was not able to resume his work, along with other forceful programs related to AIDS, with financing and cuts that make the program tough. “The dismissal did not work,” says Emory Babcock, former USAID contractor working on Pepfar, released at the beginning of Doge cuts.
On the same day as Musk’s comments, Trump administration completed Over 10,000 global health subsidies from USAID and the Department of State, killing various services that have received a release from saving life.
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Non -Profit organization, which often receives funds from USAID and cooperates with Pepfar, Notice On Wednesday, that three project contracts from USAID were terminated, despite the fact that they had previously received permission to resume activities as part of the dismissal from Pepfar. Programs support over 350,000 patients in Lesotho, Eswatini and Tanzania, including 10,000 children. “Nothing left,” says Russell. “Insurance is piles of bodies.”
Although the federal judge ordered Trump’s administration Unbreeez foreign assistance funds In order for the short-lived fulfillment of overdue bills and payments due to contractors around the world, the Supreme Court remained on Wednesday evening, which means a group of aid – including people working on preventing infectious diseases in Africa – they contain unpaid for services provided, in some cases preventing further work of life.
Meanwhile, a modern, deadly hemorrhagic fever appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo Over 60 people He is already dead, and the number of people got diseased, is still growing. Although it causes a rapid, quick cascade of symptoms, including vomiting blood, this is not an ebola or Marburg, but it seems to be an unknown disease. A USAID employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says Wired: “We have no one who could monitor it.”
Update 27.02.25 6:21 ET: This story has been updated by a comment with CDC.