Accounts for Irish aid agency Goal show it received €103 million in funding from USAID in 2023
In Mbuya, a village on a hill at the edge of the city of Kampala in Uganda, a group of patients waited in vain at a local health clinic.
Healthcare staff in the area quickly realised that all around Kampala, patients would not be getting access to the drugs. “But this is still very uncertain,” said Katusabe. “If HIV patients are forced to discontinue the antiretroviral drugs, it will lead to viral multiplication, infections and the development of cancers. It will make people sicker and palliative care services like ours could become overwhelmed with very ill people.
However, the charity did not provide a breakdown of how much of the Syria programme was funded by contributions from USAID.said in its 2023 report that “USAID funding has increased in 2023 and represents 7 per cent of overall institutional funding”. It said USAID funding had allowed it to work on programmes such as assisting victims of gender-based violence.
While the initial 90-day funding USAID pause caused concern in Government, this was heightened as the criticism of the US agency intensified among Trump and his allies in Washington last week. Staff working for Musk entered the USAID building in Washington this week and made changes to its technology infrastructure. They also tried to gain access to classified material, leading to a confrontation with two top security directors at the aid agency.
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