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"Starting Wednesday afternoon, a wave of emails went out from the State
Department in Washington around the world, landing in inboxes for refugee
camps, tuberculosis clinics, polio vaccination projects and thousands of other
organizations that received crucial funding from the United States for
lifesaving work.
“This award is being terminated for convenience and the interest of the U.S.
government,” they began.
The terse notes ended funding for some 5,800 projects that had been financed by
the United States Agency for International Development, indicating that a
tumultuous period when the Trump administration said it was freezing projects
for ostensible review was over, and that any faint hope American assistance
might continue had ended.
Many were projects that had received a waiver from the freeze because the State
Department previously identified its work as essential and lifesaving.
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the
African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because
even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
The projects terminated include H.I.V. treatment programs that had served
millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst-affected
African countries and global efforts to wipe out polio."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
