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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fight-against-tuberculosis-stalls-in-bangladesh-as-u-s-cuts-aid by Fred de Sam Lazaro 14/8/25 PBS NEWS] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fight-against-tuberculosis-stalls-in-bangladesh-as-u-s-cuts-aid by Fred de Sam Lazaro 14/8/25 PBS NEWS] | ||
Earlier this year, the Trump administration’s defunding of USAID brought an abrupt halt to hundreds of global health programs, including those targeting tuberculosis. The disease kills more people than any other infectious agent worldwide, about 1.25 million in 2023. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Bangladesh on efforts to contain the fallout. | Earlier this year, the Trump administration’s defunding of USAID brought an abrupt halt to hundreds of global health programs, including those targeting tuberculosis. The disease kills more people than any other infectious agent worldwide, about 1.25 million in 2023. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Bangladesh on efforts to contain the fallout. | ||
=====“Millions of Lives at Risk”: USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty and Disease===== | |||
[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/13/us_aid_cuts_international_impact by DEMOCRACY NOW 13/6/25] | |||
NERMEEN SHAIKH: For more on the dismantling of USAID and what it means for people around the world, we’re joined now by two guests. In Oslo, Jan Egeland is with us, with the Norwegian Refugee Council. He’s just returned from a trip to Mozambique. And here in New York, we’re joined by Amanda Klasing, national director of government relations and advocacy with Amnesty International USA, which has just released a report titled “Lives at Risk: Chaotic and Abrupt Cuts to Foreign Aid Put Millions of Lives at Risk.” | |||
