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[https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/31/g-s1-56594/childbirth-usaid-afghanistan by Diaa Hadid 31/3/25 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/31/g-s1-56594/childbirth-usaid-afghanistan by Diaa Hadid 31/3/25 npr] | ||
An Afghan midwife describes how a woman died in childbirth, along with her baby. She was snowed in at her village and couldn't reach a hospital. Just weeks before, the health clinic in her village had closed. If it was open, a midwife could have helped her. | An Afghan midwife describes how a woman died in childbirth, along with her baby. She was snowed in at her village and couldn't reach a hospital. Just weeks before, the health clinic in her village had closed. If it was open, a midwife could have helped her. | ||
=====Cuts to USAID could impact Trump administration efforts to curb migration===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5327284/cuts-to-usaid-could-impact-trump-administration-efforts-to-curb-migration by John Otis 1/4/25 npr] | |||
Stopping illegal immigration is one of President Trump's top priorities. That's why one of his administration's first big attention-getting moves in the name of cutting government - dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID - could actually work against that goal. That's because some of the agency's programs discourage migrants from heading to the U.S. Reporter John Otis has more. | |||
