USAID Media

Opinion | The Aftermath of Feeding America’s Credibility Into the Woodchipper

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Why Outcomes-Driven Giving Is the Future of Global Development With USAID’s closure, how can the global development sector achieve the same impact with a fraction of the resources?

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Thanks, but no thanks Not everyone is so enthusiastic about the new health financing agreements Washington is striking with African countries

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With $48M in philanthropic backing, a division of USAID relaunches as nonprofit A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated by Trump administration cuts last year was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit

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The Logical End Point of ‘America First’ Foreign Aid Under Trump, foreign aid is no longer an ideal. It’s just a deal.

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Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains.

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Reimagine the Future | LinkedIn Igniting philanthropy to make opportunity universal

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Devex Newswire: USAID hires contractors — but bars ex-USAID staff In a memo, the officials overseeing the shutdown of what remains of USAID explain the rationale behind the ban, saying: “By recruiting a fresh workforce, the Agency aims to avoid the risk of impaired ...

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The death of public health, in three extraordinary developments (Guest Opinion by Les Roberts) The United States is abdicating its leadership in global health, represented by people like the late Dr. William Foege, who helped to eradicate smallpox, writes public health expert.

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#pepfar #hiv #globalhealth #usaid | Scott McKissock Andrew Green has spent the last year collecting stories of people affected by the PEPFAR disruption, traveling to Malawi, Botswana, Uganda, Zambia, and Thailand to document the impact. He publishes o...

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One year after US aid freeze, HIV care in Africa is in retreat One year after President Donald Trump froze U.S. foreign aid, HIV treatment still exists across much of Africa — but the outreach, prevention, and monitoring systems that sustained it are fraying. The...

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USAID Media has been tracking coverage of the USAID shutdown since it happened. Compiling all this, it has been disheartening to see the lack of coverage from US outlets compared to publications like…... USAID Media has been tracking coverage of the USAID shutdown since it happened. Compiling all this, it has been disheartening to see the lack of coverage from US outlets compared to publications like ...

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Foreign aid represented the best Americans can be Alex Natsios on the dismantling of USAID and what we lost

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Trump dismantled USAID. Now these aid workers are running for office For a growing group of former USAID and development professionals, the sector’s collapse has sparked a new response: running for political office.

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International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better Doing more with less may not be sustainable for an exhausted workforce over the long term.

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The End of Aid Archives The U.S. Agency for International Development saved lives and promoted American interests around the globe. As the Trump administration abandons the decades-long approach to soft power, ProPublica inv...

ProPublica has set up an archive of their coverage of the USAID Shutdown www.propublica.org/series/the-e...

USAID Media podcast page

USAID Media now includes podcasts, including Unsung Americans, Global Development Interrupted, and It Was Never a Job.

Also major podcast appearances when USAID is the focus, with guests like Atul Gawande, Nicholas Kristof, and Andrew Natsios.

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Less Foreign Aid, More Climate Risk The massive costs of gutting USAID.

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Rovina’s Choice, a New Yorker Documentary humanizing the destruction of USAID. With Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Jeremy Faust. A recording from Jeremy Faust, MD's live video

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Trump bombed Nigeria. Next door, he cancelled a USAID project keeping violence in check. One night of missiles cost nearly ten times as much as a three-year peacebuilding program

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Marco Rubio’s Years of Strong Support for USAID Stand in Contrast to His Sudden Criticism of the Aid Agency A CNN review of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s past comments shows he has been for more than a decade a major supporter of foreign aid and USAID, which in fiscal year 2023 distributed more than $40 ...

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dot Gov '26: The State Department and USAID We explore the diplomatic consequences of the changes made at those agencies.

Former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios on the future of US foreign assistance the1a.org/segments/dot...

Foreign Assistance for International Development: Is It Cyclical or Dead? - The SAIS Review of International Affairs Until the advent of Donald Trump’s second term, an important component of post-World War II international economic policy included the provision of assistance to countries rebuilding after armed confl...

Essential reading: SAIS Review analysis by Larry Garber and Ed McMahon on how U.S. development policy evolved across administrations, and what is possible going forward. saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/foreign-assi...

Farm & Food File: Can someone give rural America some love? President Donald J. Trump loves to point out that farmers “love” him. The November 2024 election results prove it’s no boast.

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What Americans lost in the dismantling of USAID Many Americans do not realize how profoundly the loss of USAID will affect us here at home.

Two former USAID administrators on the USAID closure thehill.com/opinion/inte...

A Brief Look at President Trump’s List of “Appalling” Aid Projects During his speech to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, President Trump listed a number of foreign assistance projects he thought demonstrated “appalling waste.” Below is his list of examples a...

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The Painful, Seismic Shift in Humanitarian Aid—and What’s Next In the face of the United States’ aid pullback, UN member states must seize this opportunity to reimagine and renovate an outmoded global humanitarian system.

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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

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