The executive director of a Ugandan NGO warned in February 2025, weeks after the stop-work order, that the sudden disruption would shatter people’s trust in programs they had considered unshakeable. Looking back eleven months later, according to him, the Trump administration’s seemingly arbitrary actions in that period have only eroded trust further.
Date: 1/26
Region: Africa
Country: Uganda
Topic: Health
Policy Lens: Global Health Security
Entry Type: Field Observation
Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report’s original reporting, “One year after US aid freeze, HIV care in Africa is in retreat.” The feature story assesses how one year after the U.S. foreign aid freeze, HIV treatment still exists across much of Africa — but the outreach, prevention, and monitoring systems that sustained it have frayed. The report looks at how access to care has been reshaped in Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, and Botswana.
This observation is attributed to Kenneth Mwehonge, executive director of Uganda’s Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development.
Source: Devex