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JUSTTHENEWS (Ashe Short) - Stolen, expired, resold: USAID watchdog breaks up Kenyan pharmacy scheme

Reminiscent of Orson Welles' "The Third Man": Every stolen antibiotic or antiretroviral resold through a back-channel pharmacy represents both a taxpayer dollar that bought nothing and a patient who got an expired, mishandled, or counterfeit dose instead of treatment.

NYTIMES (Anupreeta Das, Sajal Pradhan and Binod Ghimire) - Nepal’s Flood Relief Workers Feel the Pain of Trump’s Cuts to U.S.A.I.D.

The agency played an important role in responding to earlier disasters like the 2015 earthquake. But the U.S. and other countries have pulled back, Nepali officials and humanitarian groups say.

NEWSNATIONNOW (Mira Bhakta and The Hill) - Trump admin ends $45M support for Namibia HIV program

The U.S.-backed program previously supported “investments in HIV testing, counselling, community-based organizations and other key health system intervention.”

WASHINGTONPOST (Adam Taylor) - Trump’s deals in Africa could cut U.S. health aid by more than half, analysis shows

The planned reductions — targeting programs that combat the spread of deadly diseases — coincide with an administration push to make developing nations spend more.

JUSTTHENEWS (Ashe Short) - USAID watchdog still probing EcoHealth as prosecutions stall

Federal investigators spent years building a case that a taxpayer-funded nonprofit billed two agencies for the same dangerous-pathogen research in Wuhan, and no one has been charged with it, leading to questions of whether grant fraud on that scale carries any consequence.

AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Documents reveal Fauci’s NIAID quietly partnered with CIA on bioterror research

Newly uncovered documents show Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases collaborated closely with the CIA on sensitive “forensic microbiology” efforts, raising fresh questions about accountability and blurred lines between public health and intelligence. The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that an undated interagency agreement details how Fauci’s NIAID worked hand in glove […] The post Documents reveal Fauci’s NIAID quietly partnered with CIA on bioterror research appeared first on American Almanac .

Newly uncovered documents show Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases collaborated closely with the CIA on sensitive “forensic microbiology” efforts, raising fresh questions about accountability and blurred lines between public health and intelligence. The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that an undated interagency agreement details how Fauci’s NIAID worked hand in glove with the CIA’s Biological Technology Center on programs involving bioterrorism-linked germs and “forensic comparative analyses.” The CIA provided funding and helped NIAID obtain pathogens, while both agencies sought to develop a “robust forensic microbiology capability.” Data from the research could not be shared…Open

JUSTTHENEWS (Ashe Short) - More nations rethink funding for UN relief agency after feds refer 100-plus staff for Hamas ties

U.S. taxpayers and their allies have spent decades funding a U.N. agency credibly accused of employing the people who carried out Oct. 7.

JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - USAID report finds more than 100 UNRWA employees participated in Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7

The agency referred a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative for debarment for allegedly receiving and holding civilian hostages beginning on October 7, 2023.

JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - White House says $2 million donation for 'Fostering the Future' program will create new scholarships

“America’s greatest competitive advantage remains in its own people," Trump said at a White House event. "Tomorrow’s leaders are sitting in classrooms today, including those growing up in foster care. Their capability is no less remarkable.”