The United States will stop sending money to Gavi, a global group that helps vaccinate children in low-income countries.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) officially closed its doors after President Donald Trump gradually ...

Some staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development describe racing the clock to try to push out promised funds ...

July 1 is the official end date for the agency that President Trump dismantled. We talk to four former top officials about ...

There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 years ago that we experienced the largest epidemic of Ebola.

The African nation of Uganda is in the middle of a deadly Ebola outbreak. The United States was providing on-the-ground humanitarian assistance, until President Trump pulled the plug on USAID.

USAID distributed nearly $43.8 billion in aid in 2023. In all, the U.S. government disbursed $71.9 billion in foreign assistance, about 1.2% of the total budget according to ForeignAssistance.gov.

The U.S. plans to cut funding for Gavi, which provides lifesaving vaccinations for millions of people in the world’s poorest countries, a USAID document shows.

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 ...

USAID, Riedl explained, has played a critical role in monitoring and containing outbreaks of Ebola and the Marburg Virus in these and other countries.

Similarly, USAID’s efforts to stop Ebola at its source are also now gone. USAID’s role in Ebola containment has long been essential.

It notes that the Bureau for Global Health got approval to conduct activities to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, but USAID was never able to draw down the funds and did not receive any ...