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US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for critical health programmes like HIV/Aids and tuberculosis in different parts of the world, including Nigeria. The Conversation Africa’s Adejuwon Soyinka asked professor of virology and former WHO Africa regional virologist Oyewale Tomori why Nigeria is heavily dependent…

Trump last week ordered a suspension of foreign assistance, while his billionaire ally Elon Musk has boasted he is putting the vast US humanitarian agency USAID “through the woodchipper”. That has included a 90-day suspension of all work by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which alone supports more than 20 million HIV…

In what will be seen as a signature act of the new Trump administration, the president and his team have denounced and dismembered the US government’s international assistance arm, USAID, in a matter of three weeks. It is a decision that will have serious, real-world consequences – and the impact is already being felt in…

US president Donald Trump has taken a series of decisions that have delivered body blows to the global management of health. He has announced that the US will leave the World Health Organization. And a 90-day freeze has been placed on money distributed by the US Agency for International Development (USAid) pending a review by…

President Trump and Elon Musk’s attempt to gut the decades-old USAID agency is likely to end millions of dollars in U.S. funding earmarked for women’s economic empowerment across the globe, including programs championed during Mr. Trump’s first term by his daughter Ivanka. While Mr. Trump’s bid to put virtually all of the agency’s workers on…