A week after terminating thousands of contracts, the administration has sent questionnaires to those programs asking how their work benefits the U.S. national interest.
Entre los 5800 proyectos eliminados figuran programas contra el VIH, programas de control de la malaria en países africanos y esfuerzos mundiales para erradicar la polio.
China could reap the soft-power advantage, but like Western governments, the country is cutting back on aid. Philanthropies say they cannot replace the United States.
In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it.
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
Por generaciones, esta ha sido la principal agencia gubernamental estadounidense para la entrega de ayuda humanitaria. Ahora el nuevo gobierno está tomando medidas para cerrarla.