{"id":11199,"date":"2025-03-07T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-foreign-aid-cuts-are-setting-the-stage-for-disease-outbreaks\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:50:35","slug":"how-foreign-aid-cuts-are-setting-the-stage-for-disease-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-foreign-aid-cuts-are-setting-the-stage-for-disease-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened animals shipped across borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration\u2019s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to dangerous pathogens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That includes Americans. Outbreaks that begin overseas can travel quickly: The coronavirus may have first appeared in China, for example, but it soon appeared everywhere, including the United States. When polio or dengue appears in this country, cases are usually linked to international travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s actually in the interest of American people to keep diseases down,\u201d said Dr. Githinji Gitahi, who heads Amref Health Africa, a large nonprofit that relies on the United States for about 25 percent of its funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDiseases make their way to the U.S. even when we have our best people on it, and now we are not putting our best people on it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In interviews, more than 30 current and former officials of the United States Agency for International Development, members of health organizations and experts in infectious diseases described a world made more perilous than it was just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The timing is dire: The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing the deadliest mpox outbreak in history, with cases exploding in a dozen other African countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States is home to a worsening bird flu crisis. Multiple hemorrhagic fever viruses are smoldering: <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/health\/ebola-uganda-usaid.html\" title=\"\">Ebola in<\/a> Uganda, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2025-DON554\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Marburg in Tanzania<\/a>, and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ncdc.gov.ng\/news\/509\/ncdc-activates-lassa-fever-emergency-operations-centre-to-strengthen-coordination-of-response-efforts\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lassa<\/a> in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2023, U.S.A.I.D. invested about $900 million<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>to fund labs and emergency-response preparedness in more than 30 countries. The pause on foreign aid froze those programs. Even payments to grantees for work already completed are being sorted out in the courts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Waivers issued by the State Department were intended to allow some work to continue on containing Ebola, Marburg and mpox, as well as preparedness for bird flu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Trump administration appointees choked payment systems and created obstacles to implementing the waivers, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/02\/health\/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html\" title=\"\">a U.S.A.I.D. memo by Nicholas Enrich<\/a>, who was the agency\u2019s acting assistant administrator for global health until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then last month, the Trump administration canceled about 5,800 contracts, effectively shuttering most U.S.A.I.D.-funded initiatives, including many that had received permission to continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt was finally clear that we were not going to be implementing\u201d even programs that had waivers, Mr. Enrich recalled in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The decision is likely to result in more than 28,000 new cases of infectious diseases like Ebola and Marburg, and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/02\/health\/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html\" title=\"\">according to one estimate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio \u201chas been working diligently since being sworn in to review every dollar spent,\u201d the State Department said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ll be able to say that every program that we are out there operating serves the national interest, because it makes us safer or stronger or more prosperous,\u2019\u201d the statement quoted Mr. Rubio as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most U.S.A.I.D. staff members <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/usaid-worker-layoffs-trump.html\" title=\"\">were terminated<\/a> or placed on administrative leave without warning. The agency had more than 50 people dedicated to outbreak responses, the result of a Congressional push to beef up pandemic preparedness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now it has six. Those who were fired included the organization\u2019s leading expert in lab diagnostics and the manager of the Ebola response. \u201cI have no idea how six people are going to run four outbreak responses,\u201d said one official who was let go. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Also sent home were hundreds of thousands of community health workers in Africa who were sentinels for diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In early January, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3e1v1nywy7o\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tanzanian government denied<\/a> there were new cases of Marburg, a hemorrhagic fever. It was a community health worker trained through a U.S.-funded Ebola program who reported the disease a week later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The outbreak eventually grew to include 10 cases; it is now under control, the government has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even in quieter times, foreign aid helps to prevent, detect and treat diseases that can endanger Americans, including drug-resistant H.I.V., tuberculosis and malaria, and bacteria that don\u2019t respond to available antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Much of that work has stopped, and other organizations or countries cannot fill the gap. Compounding the loss is America\u2019s withdrawal from the World Health Organization, which has instituted cost-cutting measures of its own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a lose-lose scenario,\u201d said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, who has led pandemic prevention efforts at the W.H.O. and the C.D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The slashing of foreign aid deprives the world of American leadership and expertise, but it also locks the United States out of global discussions, Dr. Fukuda said: \u201cFor the life of me, I cannot see the justification or the reason for this very calculated, systematic approach to pull down public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3b96e4ec\">Trying to Adapt<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S.A.I.D.\u2019s intense focus on global health security is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/fact-sheet-the-us-commitment-the-global-health-security-agenda\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">barely a decade old<\/a>, but it has mostly received bipartisan support. The first Trump administration expanded the program to 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Much of the aid was intended to help them eventually tackle problems on their own. And to some extent, that was happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But confronted with a new virus or outbreak, \u201cthere\u2019s so many things that one has to do and learn, and many countries can\u2019t do that on their own,\u201d said Dr. Lucille Blumberg, an infectious diseases physician and expert on emerging diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S.A.I.D. and its partners helped countries identify the expertise, training and machinery they needed, brought together officials in various ministries and engaged farmers, businesses and families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt actually doesn\u2019t cost the U.S. government that much,\u201d said an official with a large development organization. \u201cBut that sort of trust-building, communication, sharing evidence is a real strength that the U.S. brings to health security \u2014 and that\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Africa, some countries have reacted to the disappearance of aid with alarm, others with resignation. \u201cWe\u2019re doing our best to adapt to this development,\u201d said Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria\u2019s health minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe U.S. government is not responsible, ultimately, for the health and the security of Nigerian people,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, the responsibility is ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A successful outbreak response requires coordination of myriad elements: investigators to confirm the initial report; workers trained to do testing; access to test kits; transport of samples; a lab with enough workers, running water, electricity and chemical supplies for diagnoses; and experts to interpret and act on the results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In broad strokes, the C.D.C. provided expertise on diseases, U.S.A.I.D. funded logistics and the W.H.O. convened stakeholders, including ministries of health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before the aid freeze, employees from each organization often talked every day, sharing information and debating strategy. Together, they lowered response time to an outbreak from two weeks in 2014 to five days in 2022 to just 48 hours most recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But now, C.D.C. experts who have honed their expertise over decades are not even allowed to speak to colleagues at the W.H.O. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S.A.I.D. funding for sample transport, lab supplies, fuel for generators and phone plans for contact tracers has ended. Much of its investment in simple solutions to seemingly intractable problems has also stopped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In West Africa, for example, rodents that spread Lassa fever invade homes in search of food. One program in U.S.A.I.D.\u2019s Stop Spillover project introduced rodent-proof food containers to limit the problem, but has now shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Congo, where corruption, conflict and endless outbreaks mean that surveillance \u201clooks like Swiss cheese even at the best of times,\u201d the mpox response slowed because there were no health workers to transport samples, said a U.S.A.I.D. official familiar with the response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than 400 mpox patients were left stranded after fleeing overwhelmed clinics. Before a waiver restarted some work, the United States identified <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mpox\/situation-summary\/index.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">two new cases of mpox<\/a>, both in people who had traveled to East Africa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Kenya, U.S.A.I.D. supported eight labs and community-based surveillance in 12 high-risk counties. Labs in the Marsabit, Mandera and Garissa counties \u2014 which border Ethiopia and Somalia \u2014 have run out of test kits and reagents for diseases including Rift Valley fever, yellow fever and polio, and have lost nearly half their staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kenya also borders Uganda and Tanzania and is close to Congo \u2014 all battling dangerous outbreaks \u2014 and has lost more than 35,000 workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese stop-work orders would mean that it increases the risk of an index case passing through unnoticed,\u201d Dr. Gitahi said, referring to the first known case in an outbreak. His organization has terminated nearly 400 of its staff of 2,400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many labs in Africa store samples of pathogens that naturally occur in the environment, including several that can be weaponized. With surveillance programs shut off, the pathogens could be stolen, and a bioterrorism attack might go undetected until it was too late to counter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some experts worried about bad actors who may release a threat like cholera into the water, or weaponize anthrax or brucellosis, common in African animals. Others said they were concerned that even unskilled handling of these disease threats might be enough to set off a disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Funding from the U.S. government helped hire and train lab workers to maintain and dispose of dangerous viruses and bacteria safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But now, pathogens can be moved in and out of labs with no one the wiser. \u201cWe have lost our ability to understand where pathogens are being held,\u201d said Kaitlin Sandhaus, founder and chief executive of Global Implementation Solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her company helped 17 African labs become accredited in biosafety procedures and supported five countries in drafting laws to ensure compliance. Now the firm is shutting down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the future, other countries, including China, will know more about where risky pathogens are housed, Ms. Sandhaus said: \u201cIt feels very dangerous to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">China has already invested in building labs in Africa, where it is cheaper and easier to \u201cwork on whatever you would like without anyone else paying attention,\u201d said one U.S.A.I.D. official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia, too, is providing mobile labs to Ugandans in Mbale, on the border with Kenya, another official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some African countries like Somalia have fragile health systems and persistent security threats, yet minimal capacity for tracking infections that sicken animals and people, said Abdinasir Yusuf Osman, a veterinary epidemiologist and chair of a working group in Somalia\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-14\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Each year Somalia exports millions of camels, cattle and other livestock, primarily to the Middle East. The nation has relied heavily on foreign aid to screen the animals for diseases, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe consequences of this funding shortfall, in my view, will be catastrophic and increase the likelihood of uncontrolled outbreaks,\u201d Dr. Osman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In countries with larger economies, foreign aid has been enormously useful for building relationships. Thailand is a pioneer in infectious diseases, and U.S.A.I.D. was funding a modest project on malaria elimination that boosts its surveillance capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The abrupt end to that commitment risks losing good will, said Jui Shah, who helped run the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn Asia, relationships are crucial for any type of work, but especially for roles that work with surveillance and patient data,\u201d she said. \u201cAmericans will suffer if other countries hesitate to engage with us about outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/health\/usaid-funding-disease-outbreaks.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. 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