For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the ...

Gutting USAID is already having a devastating impact around the world. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, teams that would normally be racing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.

In 2014, for example, USAID deployed teams in West Africa to coordinate the response to a fast-growing Ebola outbreak. A significant part of that response was the establishment of screening protocols ...

The humanitarian organization’s collapse cuts Florida’s access to disaster relief, agricultural exports and more that affect ...

When something is detected—like the Ebola outbreak now underway in Uganda—USAID would normally swing into action with an active response team, deploying technical experts to support the ...

Over 5,340 programs, worth $75.9 billion, have been wiped according to documents sent to the U.S. Congress. Plus, the top 20 USAID contractors that lost over $100 million each, and Palestine’s U.N.

The judge wrote: "Musk made the decisions to shutdown USAID's headquarters and website even though he lacked the authority to ...

It notes that the Bureau for Global Health got approval to conduct activities to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, but USAID was never able to draw down the funds and did not receive any ...

Stephanie Nolen covers global health. March 6, 2025 The Ebola outbreak in Uganda has worsened significantly, and the country’s ability to contain the spread has been severely weakened by the ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

USAID's Congressional legislative mandate ... Prevention Is More Cost-Effective Than Emergency Funding of Programs: The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak cost the U.S. approximately $4.3 billion in response ...