Opinion: I’m head of an NGO in Kenya. The shutoff of USAID support has been devastating
“There is a pervasive sense of fear — of losing access to critical health care services and of livelihoods lost,” CFK Africa Executive Director Jeffrey Okoro writes about the end…
In an instant, more than 1,000 patients at my health care clinic outside Nairobi lost access to lifesaving HIV treatments. Thousands more could no longer receive treatment for tuberculosis or contraception that prevents teenage pregnancies, hurting the well-being of our communities and threatening the progress we’ve made in their medical care.
These are only a fraction of the consequences of the U.S. government’s sudden decision to stop foreign aid managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development. While some HIV treatments have resumed, the future of these services is still uncertain.
