i3 Shifts Focus to Growth-Stage Healthtech Startups Amid U.S. Aid Suspension
By Aayushya Ranjan Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative to support African healthtech startups to commercialise and scale their offerings has decided to make a pivotal change...
View ArticleAnalysis: When Your Coworkers Got Laid Off — But You Didn’t
By Alyson Meister, Victoria Kemanian You’ve just arrived at the office in the aftermath of yesterday’s layoff announcement. You sense the collective unease. You see it in peoples’ glances, and you...
View ArticleUSAID Watchdog Warns of Lack of Oversight of $8.2 Billion in Unspent Aid...
The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration’s foreign funding freeze and idling of staff,...
View ArticleAnalysis: As USAID Is Crushed, There Are Prospects—But Major Limits—For...
By Christine Ro First of all, to be very clear: the private sector cannot replace the thousands of staff members, the billions of grant dollars, and the decades of experience that have made the U.S....
View ArticleReport: As Deadline Looms, Countries Must Seize Opportunity to Plug Health...
New research published today by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) demonstrates that while governments are giving greater priority to health when setting national climate policies, many have...
View ArticleUSAID Suspension Is Disrupting Global Health Programs in 50 Countries – WHO...
By Anthonia Obokoh The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that the recent suspension of U.S. foreign aid has disrupted critical health programs in 50 countries. WHO Director-General Tedros...
View ArticleViewpoint: How to Show Up When Your Work Is Under Attack
By Felix Schein The opening actions of the second Trump administration should have come as little surprise to anyone working to improve the lives of others. The new administration made no secret of...
View ArticleAfrican Hospital Staff Laid off en Masse Amid Trump Aid Freeze
The letters sent to Kenyan health workers have been bureaucratic, curt and devastating to the country’s hospitals and clinics. Some 500 workers at Kisii Referral Hospital were told that due to the...
View ArticleEU Says It ‘Cannot Fill’ USAID Funding Gap as Africa Seeks Solutions
By Preeti Jha The European Union said it cannot plug the funding gap left by the United States suspending aid programs, as governments across Africa try to keep critical health care services running....
View ArticleTrump’s Aid Cuts Deny One Million Women a Week Access to Contraception
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have had an immediate and devastating impact on the ground in low-income countries. Photo courtesy...
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