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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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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.
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A short-lived U.S.-funded education program brought teachers to villages where girls had never been allowed to attend school. Its abrupt end has left many of those girls without a path back to learning — and under increased pressure to marry.
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Despite expectations that Beijing would expand its influence after USAID’s withdrawal, China has shown little interest in taking over U.S.-funded programs, leaving a development divide across Southeast and South Asia.
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A simple, one-time procedure that sharply lowers HIV risk has long been a quiet success story in Botswana — until U.S. funding cuts halted the community outreach behind it.
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The USAID-backed nutrition system that once reached some of Nepal’s most vulnerable districts has collapsed, halting screening and straining health posts already short on staff and supplies.
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The termination of USAID governance programs has hollowed out civic education networks that once reached rural and first-time voters. The move threatens public trust and could “undermine the U.S.’s strategic interest in the region,” experts tell Devex.
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As U.S.-funded initiatives disappear, this peace-building organization says they’re “operating blind” in one of Nigeria’s most fragile regions.
A USAID-backed moringa project in Uganda offered rural farmers modest payments and a rare path toward stability. Then the funding stopped for good.
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An El Niño drought and aid cuts have left millions in Zimbabwe hungry. Mary’s Meals International is keeping 179,000 children in school with daily meals — even as USAID pulls $83 million in funding.
The Trump administration has canceled or suspended dozens of programs to provide HIV services to the most marginalized communities. The people running those programs say lives are now at risk.