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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Receives $1.5 Million from Gates Foundation to Strengthen U.S. Leadership in Global Health
Published October 1, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 2, 2025 — The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) has received a $1.5 million award from the Gates Foundation to launch Common Ground for Global Health, a new initiative aimed at revitalizing bipartisan support for U.S. global health programs, with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health, and…
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Peninsula Press: Coping with Cuts - Portraits of Loss after the U.S. Ceases Aid Operations Around the Globe
Published June 5, 2025
Read the full article at the PeninsulaPress.
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Mother Jones: State Department Cables Reveal the Harrowing Consequences of Elon Musk’s USAID Demolition
Published June 3, 2025
In response to inquiries from Mother Jones, a State Department spokesperson said that, “Following the Secretary’s approval for lifesaving PEPFAR programs, PEPFAR program implementers who are providing lifesaving treatment and prevention of mother to child transmission services were notified and urged to resume approved service delivery,” and that ”[a]gencies have been working…
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France24 - Africa's healthcare faces crisis after Trump's aid cuts
Published June 1, 2025
Since Trump’s return to the White House, US international aid has drastically decreased, affecting millions of people, particularly in Africa. Doris Macharia, President of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, was FRANCE 24’s guest, and she highlighted the stakes of Trump’s aid cuts in Africa, as member of the World…
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CNBC Africa: Rebuilding global health partnerships in the wake of U.S. aid withdrawals
Published June 1, 2025
The U.S. decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) has disrupted decades of progress in health delivery across low- and middle-income countries, with women and children in Africa among the hardest hit. CNBC Africa’s Tabitha Muthoni spoke to Dr. Doris Macharia, President of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS…
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Science.org: Left behind - In Lesotho and Eswatini, U.S. budget cuts threaten to wipe out years of progress against HIV
Published May 27, 2025
On 14 May, Temalangeni Dlamini, 20, traveled 10 kilometers from her rural home in southern Eswatini to the Matsanjeni Health Centre for the first check-up of her pregnancy, which was already 8 months along. Dlamini was hoping to give birth at the clinic, which required an evaluation beforehand. The procedure…
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Christianity Today: Aid Cuts Could Disrupt Historic Drops in Child and Maternal Mortality
Published May 7, 2025
A community health worker in Uganda, after losing his US-funded salary in the foreign aid cuts, continued doing his health-outreach work as a volunteer—and in a rural community he found a very sick child with HIV who had stopped receiving the antiretroviral treatment that keeps him alive and prevents potentially…
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Washington Post: After 100 days, the toll of Trump’s foreign aid cuts has begun to sink in
Published April 30, 2025
In the first 100 days of his second term as president, Donald Trump has presided over a dismantling of U.S. foreign aid so sweeping that in many areas only a skeleton remains. Aid organizations on the ground say the effects, while only just beginning, have begun to take a toll…
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Libération: Trump and the fight against AIDS: "Are we just going to be left to die?"
Published April 13, 2025
Read the full article at Libération.