Everyone knew the 2025 US aid freeze would devastate HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa. Now the evidence is emerging New working paper, real service data from 4 NGOs in Uganda & Zimbabwe: prevention ↓60%, testing ↓50%, treatment ↓30%. #HIV #PEPFAR #USAID

Project Resource Optimization—an independent initiative hosted at CGD—is mobilizing private funding for life-saving needs. The team reflects on lessons learned & challenges ahead in the first post of a new series: https://bit.ly/45XF0Cb

The High Cost of Pausing Life-Saving Aid

When the US froze foreign assistance in early 2025, it halted scores of USAID-supported programs that were saving lives. Project Resource Optimization (PRO) has helped mobilize nearly $46 million to r...

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine@lshtm.bsky.social · last yr.

World’s first rigorous clinical trial of treatments for bubonic #plague: UK & #Madagascar researchers find treatment at home with oral antibiotics highly effective & safe low-cost alternative to injections #PublicHealth 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...