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There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 ...
The African nation of Uganda is in the middle of a deadly Ebola outbreak. The United States was providing on-the-ground ...
I saw how USAID protects American lives by strengthening health systems in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and South Africa to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like Ebola ...
At 2:00 a.m. evacuees assembled and waited for their names to be called to get on one of the boats; if your name wasn’t ...
The acting assistant administrator for global health at USAID, who was put on administrative leave, said Ebola response activities were not approved and no funds were made available. It was a ...
One simply texts: 🤯. “None of the Ebola activities had been approved.” That’s the blunt takeaway from Nicholas Enrich, a longtime USAID global health leader, testifying before Congress ...
We faced a risk of that in the 2010s with Ebola, but fortunately — partly because of USAID — we were able to primarily stop it in West Africa. And then Covid-19, of course, which did come to ...
An internal USAID memo painted a grim picture of the global impact of the cuts. It said Ebola and Marburg virus are likely to impact tens of thousands more people every year; malaria alone could ...
Well, Ebola is back in Uganda, and USAID’s effort to treat it there have been terminated. The same is true of the effort to monitor and arrest bird flu, HIV and AIDS, Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever ...
When the Trump administration gutted USAID, it also abruptly canceled — "for convenience" — a fellowship that served as a ...