The CDC did not respond to requests for comment.
On the surface, the USAID program where humanitarian exemptions save other lives that have encountered similar problems is recognized. Earlier this month, Wired reported that despite a small number of nets in the Food Aid and Hunger Prevention Program received exemptions, many of the workers who implemented the program were abandoned or fired. This is still true today. “We have not yet been able to resume operations,” says Payal Chandiramani, a spokesman for international companies that implement most of the program.
Meanwhile, lifesaving aids and HIV programs will not resume either. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is one of the most high-profile success stories from USAID, believed to have saved more than 26 million lives since former President George W. Bush founded the program in 2003. Despite the waiver, Pepfer, along with other inhibited AIDS-related programs, is unable to resume its work, with funding and staffing hampering the program. “The exemption is not working,” says Emory Babcock, a former USAID contractor who works on Pepfar, which was laid off at the beginning of Doge’s cut.
The Trump administration was on the same day as Musk’s comments. end Over 10,000 Global Health Grants from the USAID and the State Department have killed a variety of services that had been granted life-saving immunity.
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation is a nonprofit organization that often receives funds from USAID and works with Pepfar. I’ve been notified Three of its project agreements with USAID ended on Wednesday, despite previously approved to resume operations under the Pep-Far exemption. The program supports more than 350,000 patients in Lesotho, Esvatini and Tanzania, including 10,000 children. “There’s nothing left,” Russell says. “The secondary damage is the body pile.”
Despite a federal judge ordering the Trump administration Freeze foreign aid funds The Supreme Court maintained the order Wednesday night to temporarily meet debt and payments to contractors around the world. This means that groups that include people working on infectious disease prevention in Africa will be unpaid for the rendered services.
Meanwhile, a new, fatal hemorrhagic fever has emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past five weeks. Over 60 people Already dead, the number of people getting sick is still rising. It causes a rapid cascade of severe symptoms such as vomiting and blood, which is neither Ebola nor Marburg, but instead appears to be an unknown disease. A USAID worker, speaking anonymously, told Wired:
