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In Nepal, US ends effort to help women make life-or-death choices
Sunita Neupane
Health, Moral Leadership
In Nepal, US ends effort to help women make life-or-death choices
Sunita Neupane
Health, Moral Leadership

Pregnant Anita Yadav died after waiting for permission to seek medical care. U.S. aid cuts had already dismantled a nationwide program designed to “break gender norms that undervalued women’s lives.”

Photo Credit: Sunita Neupane / Devex

Sunita Neupane
Health, Moral Leadership
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Economic & Trade Interests
Africa after aid [Foreign Affairs] ↳
Economic & Trade Interests

Contrary to widespread predictions of economic catastrophe following major U.S. and Western aid cuts, many African economies have demonstrated surprising resilience, Foreign Affairs reports.

Economic & Trade Interests
Moral Leadership
John Oliver on Trump’s dismantling of USAID: ‘What this administration has done is beyond cruel’ [The Guardian] ↳
Moral Leadership

On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver took aim at the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID, calling the move morally indefensible and detailing its deadly consequences for vulnerable populations around the world.

Moral Leadership
Gender Equality, Moral Leadership
Three women, three countries and a global crisis [El Pais] ↳
Gender Equality, Moral Leadership

El País follows three women across three countries to show how the collapse of U.S. foreign aid has hit women and girls hardest, stripping away maternal care, family planning, and gender-based violence protections that their governments had long neglected. The piece underscores a stark milestone: 2025 marked the first year in a quarter century that child mortality rose, a trend researchers link directly to the dismantling of USAID and the elimination of 94% of U.S. funding for sexual and reproductive health.

Gender Equality, Moral Leadership

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Food and Farming After U.S. Aid Cuts

The U.S. approach to food aid has evolved over decades, shifting from surplus commodity distribution to include resilience and research. But in 2025, the entire framework was abruptly upended by sweeping foreign assistance cuts under the Trump administration.

Download the brief for more on how these disruptions are playing out now.

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USAID moves out, gangs move in: The cost of aid cuts in Colombia
Peacebuilding & Stabilization, Security & Resilience
USAID moves out, gangs move in: The cost of aid cuts in Colombia
Peacebuilding & Stabilization, Security & Resilience

When U.S.-funded youth programs closed in Colombia’s Chocó province, they left behind a vacuum that gangs and armed groups were quick to exploit. Drawing on reporting from affected communities, The Aid Report traces the unraveling of years of prevention work.

Photo Credit: Alfie Pannell

Peacebuilding & Stabilization, Security & Resilience

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Impact Spotlight surfaces one key theme, sector, or region based on emerging data and reporting. Explore all data in our Impact Tracker below.

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Maternal Health
Delayed care causes harm
Maternal Health

In DRC, clinicians report increases in uterine ruptures, maternal deaths, and untreated cervical cancer as women delay care due to new fees and longer travel distances. In Madagascar, the termination of a USAID-supported maternal health program — previously credited with halving maternal and neonatal mortality in target regions — has led to sharp declines in referrals and facility-based deliveries.

Sources: Physicians for Human Rights, MSH

Maternal Health
Maternal Health
Midwife training has been halted
Maternal Health

In Rwanda, the termination of the USAID-funded Ireme Project halted scholarships for 500 midwifery students, cutting off care for an estimated 250,000–500,000 women in the first year alone. In Afghanistan, a USAID program mentoring 9,000 maternal and newborn health workers was terminated, ending hands-on training in one of the world’s most dangerous places to give birth.

Source: MSH

Maternal Health
Maternal Health
Pregnancy care is moving farther away
Maternal Health

In Afghanistan, women report traveling long distances to Kabul or Charikar after village clinics closed, often unable to afford transport or fees. In Uganda, the termination of community health programs has left millions of households without a local point of contact for prenatal and delivery care.

Source: CARE

Maternal Health
HIV
Youth & vulnerable groups are losing critical prevention systems
HIV

Kenya’s DREAMS program — which kept 66,000 girls HIV-free over three years — shut down. In South Africa, U.S.-funded drop-in centers for key populations closed, cutting off PrEP, harm-reduction, methadone programs, and HIV commodities.

Source: Physicians for Human Rights, Ritshidze

HIV
HIV
Rape survivors have lost access to HIV prevention
HIV

Health facilities in DRC and Ethiopia ran out of PEP kits, a short-term emergency treatment that must be started within 72 hours of a potential exposure. This leaves survivors of sexual violence without the emergency medication needed to prevent HIV infection.

Source: Physicians for Human Rights

HIV
HIV
HIV infections in babies are rising
HIV

Clinicians in Kenya report the return of new HIV infections in newborns — something virtually eliminated under U.S.-supported maternal prevention. In Uganda, one clinic saw 25% of HIV-positive pregnant women give birth to HIV-infected infants after ARV stockouts and rationing.

Source: Physicians for Human Rights

HIV

The Aid Report Impact Tracker is a living, public record of real-world impacts from U.S. foreign aid cuts. Each entry captures verified accounts of disruption or change — from halted health services to shuttered education programs. Every submission is reviewed and vetted by our editorial team before inclusion.

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REUTERS/Mazin Alrasheed

“The most difficult moment has been losing access to the basic and necessary needs of life—no food, no medicine, no cash, and no services. Every day has become a fight just to survive.”

— A community member in Kadugli, South Kordofan State, Sudan. As told to Mercy Corps following the termination of a direct cash assistance program.

Photo Credit: REUTERS/Mazin Alrasheed

Three children walking on a dirt path in a dry landscape, carrying baskets of sand or soil on their heads, under a partly cloudy sky.

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