Archive for February 13th, 2025

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13/02/2025

US Funding Cuts Pose Direct Threat to Public Health Efforts Worldwide: World Health Organization

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed deep concern over the impact of US funding cuts on critical global health initiatives, warning they pose a direct threat to public health efforts worldwide.

HIV programmes, including in Ethiopia, are being impacted by US funding cuts.
© UNICEF Ethiopia/Bethelhem Ass | HIV programmes, including in Ethiopia, are being impacted by US funding cuts.
 
In a media briefing on Tuesday [], WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the consequences of funding suspensions, including disruptions to HIV treatment, setbacks in polio eradication and limited resources for responding to mpox epidemics in Africa.

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13/02/2025

Shutting Down USAID Threatens to Endanger World’s Poorer Nations

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By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 2025 (IPS)* – The Trump administration’s decision to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US government’s primary channel for humanitarian aid and disaster relief, is expected to have a devastating impact on the world’s developing nations.

The 2025 Budget Request, under the former Biden administration, amounted to a staggering $58.8 billion in US foreign aid for this year.

The proposed aid included funding to fully support the US priorities and commitments made at the U.S.-Africa Leader’s Summit in May last year.

The request also fulfills Biden’s pledge made at the U.S.-hosted Seventh Replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria to match $1 for every $2 contributed by other donors by providing $1.2 billion to the Global Fund.

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13/02/2025

Urgent Appeal for $81 Million to Assist Over One Million Migrants in Horn of Africa, Yemen, and Southern Africa

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By the International Organization for Migration*

11 February 2025, Nairobi –The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and 45 humanitarian and development partners are appealing for USD 81 million to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance to over one million migrants — including women and children — and the communities that host them in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Republic of Tanzania, Kenya and Yemen.
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Migrants crossing the desert in Obok, Djibouti. Hundreds of thousands of migrants embark each year on dangerous irregular journeys primarily from Ethiopia and Somalia. Photo by IOM 2022/Alexander Bee

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