Gabrielle Emanuel
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NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-27-2025 8PM EST
The WHO and CDC collaborate on a wide range of health efforts, including a major mpox outbreak in parts of Africa and in Tanzania, an outbreak of Marburg virus, which is Ebola's cousin. There are also global efforts to monitor and contain bird flu.
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NPR News: 01-27-2025 8PM EST
CDC officials, who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak, said the memo came as a surprise and they haven't seen an order like this before. They're still trying to understand what the implications might be for fighting disease outbreaks. President Trump started the process of withdrawing from the WHO on Inauguration Day. That process takes a year. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
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NPR News: 02-03-2025 7PM EST
Typically, Uganda uses money from the U.S. to securely transport samples from suspected Ebola cases to their national lab for testing. Similarly, they use U.S. funds to check travelers leaving the country to make sure they aren't carrying Ebola across borders. But that support is missing.
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NPR News: 02-03-2025 7PM EST
Mike Ryan is with the World Health Organization. He says WHO is filling the funding gaps for now, but the freeze on aid is complicating multiple emergencies at once.
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NPR News: 02-03-2025 7PM EST
President Trump has ordered the U.S. to withdraw from WHO and stop funding the organization. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
Up First from NPR
Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
Hi.
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
If you look at 2023, total foreign assistance was $66 billion. It reached a lot of people, but it represented less than 1% of the U.S. budget.
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
Yes. So Ukraine is among the top recipients of U.S. aid. It goes to things like rebuilding infrastructure after it's attacked by Russia or seeds and fertilizer to build up the agriculture sector to get more exports. The Trump administration has issued some narrow waivers, but most things have stopped.
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
For example, NPR's Ukraine bureau has confirmed disruptions in the delivery of HIV AIDS medications. And I want to
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
So part of the thinking is helping people creates goodwill. And it gives the U.S. greater influence in the world by stabilizing countries so they don't turn to America's adversaries for support. I spoke with Andrew Natsios. He's the former director of USAID under President George W. Bush, a self-described conservative Republican candidate.
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
He says halting foreign aid is happening at a precarious moment as the U.S. competes with Russia, China, Iran for influence.
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
Now, he agrees with Trump that government spending is at crisis levels, and he does not think every foreign aid program is perfect. But he says cutting all of USAID is cutting muscle, not fat.
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
Yes, well, U.S. assistance goes to a lot of things, but particularly health, helping control disease outbreaks, for example. So if we look at Uganda, it is dealing with an Ebola outbreak right now. The World Health Organization told me typically the U.S.
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
would be funding technical support, like transportation of highly contagious Ebola samples and screening at airports to make sure no one is carrying the virus across borders. But this time, that U.S. funding has stopped.
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Deadline For Federal Workers, Reaction To Trump's Gaza Plan, Future Of US Foreign Aid
Thank you.