USAID is responsible for global health efforts that have saved the lives of millions of children. What happens when those programs are cut?
of its plans to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. This move came as no surprise, as USAID has drawn the attention of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service since the current administration took office.
USAID is a massive agency that provides all kinds of assistance all over the world, so the implications of its dissolution are vast and complex. Here to talk us through it is Tanya Lewis, a senior health and medicine editor atSo USAID is the U.S. Agency for International Development. It’s basically an organization that was founded by President John F. Kennedy back in the ’60s. The main purpose was to provide foreign aid to other countries.
Because it’s kind of hard to actually pinpoint the impacts of USAID funding, what they did was they compared a group of countries that received, like I said, an above-average level of funding and they compared that with a “synthetic control” group, which is basically a group of countries that did not receive very much funding from USAID.
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