After the dismantling of USAID eliminated an estimated 35,000 in Nepal, around 100 LGBTQ+ former aid workers who once ran HIV outreach programs have turned to sex work to survive, walking the same highways where they previously distributed condoms and administered tests, the AP reports.

World Politics Review reports that the withdrawal of U.S. humanitarian funding has hollowed out child protection systems at Malawi's Dzaleka refugee camp leaving girls exposed to trafficking and sexual exploitation.

A new U.N. Women report finds that at least one million women and girls have been cut off from life-saving support over the past 18 months as global aid funding has evaporated — a retreat led by the U.S.

New research from the SHARP Project finds that access to HIV treatment in Kenya's Mandera County has fallen to near-collapse levels — averaging just 1.5% availability — while stockouts of maternal medicines have surged across two other counties. It’s a crisis that researchers are attributing directly to the closure of USAID, Health Policy Watch reports.

The Trump administration announced a significant expansion of the Mexico City Policy, barring U.S. foreign aid to those it says support “gender ideology” and diversity, equity and inclusion. Supporters praise the move as protecting U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding abortion internationally, while critics warn the restrictions undermine care for women and marginalized populations, according to NPR.

Sharp cuts to U.S. foreign aid for the World Food Programme have left refugees at the Kakuma camp in Kenya severely malnourished, with pregnant women facing life-threatening complications, reports ProPublica. Many families must choose between returning to starvation outside the hospital or staying indefinitely to access basic meals.

U.S. aid cuts have forced girls out of school and left women facing rising hunger, early marriage, and health risks in Uganda’s Rwamwanja refugee settlement, Nicholas Kristof writes.

Uganda’s LGBTQ community faces new fear and uncertainty after a U.S. aid freeze, the Associated Press reports. Activists say the loss of support has left many without protection or services.