A Kenyan community-based organization that did not receive U.S. government funds delivering health and education services in informal settlements has seen a significant rise in patients seeking medical services from its clinics.

Date: 9/25

Region: Africa

Country: Kenya

Topic: Health, Education

Policy Lens: Global Health Security

Entry Type: Secondary Effect

Additional Context: Kennedy Odede, founder of Shining Hope for Communities, known as SHOFCO, reported this to Devex at the 80th U.N. General Assembly. He said that community-based organizations, or CBOs, have been left to bear the brunt of aid cuts. Increases in patients to his organization's clinics, according to him, is because they were no longer able to access services that USAID had previously funded.

Source: Devex