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[https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56881/vaccines-gavi-usaid-rubio by Fran Kritz 28/3/25 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56881/vaccines-gavi-usaid-rubio by Fran Kritz 28/3/25 npr] | ||
Since its founding in 2000 the organization says it has played a role in vaccinating 1.1 billion children against a raft of potentially devastating diseases from polio to malaria to m pox. | Since its founding in 2000 the organization says it has played a role in vaccinating 1.1 billion children against a raft of potentially devastating diseases from polio to malaria to m pox. | ||
=====The Trump administration kills nearly all USAID programs===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5310673/usaid-trump-administration-global-health by Fatma Tanis, Frank Langfitt 26/2/25 npr] | |||
The Trump administration is terminating thousands of USAID foreign assistance grants and awards, according to the State Department. The move effectively guts the six-decade-old agency. | |||