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From camps to crops: US aid cuts reshape refugee life in Thailand
Rebecca L. Root
Refugees & Displacement, Migration & Mobility
From camps to crops: US aid cuts reshape refugee life in Thailand
Rebecca L. Root
Refugees & Displacement, Migration & Mobility

After decades of confinement to border camps, a small number of Burmese refugees are now working legally in Thailand. The Aid Report examines how U.S. aid cuts helped trigger the policy shift — and whether labor can supplement aid without exposing refugees to greater risk.

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Rebecca L. Root
Refugees & Displacement, Migration & Mobility
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Moral Leadership
How Trump has brutally reshaped foreign aid since returning to the White House [NPR] ↳
Moral Leadership

The Independent reports that changes to U.S. foreign assistance under the Trump administration have coincided with interruptions in health, contraception, and disease control services in several African countries. With the scale of support significantly reduced, the shape of American foreign assistance and its effect on the world going forward looks very different one year on.

Moral Leadership
Moral Leadership
How one organization is trying to close the funding gap left by USAID's closure [NPR] ↳
Moral Leadership

In the wake of the USAID closure, philanthropies are trying to fill some of the gap. NPR follows how one organization is trying to do the most good in the face of major cuts to U.S. foreign assistance.

Moral Leadership
Health, Global Health Security
One year later: the effect of US ‘chainsaw’ on global health [Health Policy Watch] ↳
Health, Global Health Security

Health Policy Watch reports that one year after the U.S. government paused foreign aid and cut global health projects, gaps continue to emerge in services such as HIV treatment. These changes were a major shock to global health financing and governance, with models estimating significant deaths and disease spread associated with the funding interruptions.

Health, Global Health Security

Emerging Findings

After the dismantling of large parts of U.S. foreign assistance architecture, many downstream effects are just coming into view. This brief draws on The Aid Report’s aggregated dataset — spanning health, food & farming, refugees & displacement, governance, livelihoods, and more — to identify cross-cutting patterns that are difficult to see in isolation.

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‘I can’t just leave them’: Kenya’s health workers carry on without pay
Global Health, Trade & Policy, Kenya
‘I can’t just leave them’: Kenya’s health workers carry on without pay
Global Health, Trade & Policy, Kenya

Nearly a year after the U.S. cut much of its health funding to Kenya, unpaid community health workers still underpin HIV and mental health care. A new U.S.-Kenya health deal has been signed, but its impact has yet to reach the front lines.

Photo Credit: © David Snyder / ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect

Global Health, Trade & Policy, Kenya

Impact Spotlight

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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“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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