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    Analysis
    East Alabama Medical Center nurse Harvard Graham checks fluids for a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit this month in Opelika, Ala.
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    What's At Stake With Trump's Threat: COVID-19 Relief And A Government Shutdown

    Dec 23, 2020
    President Trump has introduced a round of Christmas chaos that imperils direct payments to millions of Americans suffering due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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    Global Health
    Nana (left) gets her birth control implant checked by Dr. Jean Rangomana during the Marie Stopes International mobile clinic in Besakoa, Madagascar, on April 9, 2018. Abortion is illegal under all circumstances in Madagascar, and Trump administration pol
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    Under Trump, New Anti-Abortion Rules Shook Fragile Health Systems Around the World

    Nov 24, 2020
    President-elect Joe Biden inherits a global health landscape changed by the Trump administration more than under any Republican president since Ronald Reagan.
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    Goats and Soda
    The U.S. Agency for International Development is one of the largest official foreign aid organizations in the world. An executive order from the Trump administration said there would be consequences if its diversity training programs were to continue.
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    Why Diversity Training Has Been Suspended At USAID

    Oct 27, 2020
    The suspension followed an executive order from the Trump administration that called such workplace programs "divisive," "anti-American," racist against white people and sexist against men.
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    Goats and Soda
    A government employee in the Honduras unpacks some of the 8,000 COVID-19 diagnostic testing kits donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Organization for Migration.
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    U.S. Mulls Controversial Foreign Aid Shake-up

    Jun 17, 2020
    The administration wants to channel more funds through the State Department in an effort to target emerging diseases. Critics say that could have dire impacts on the children of the world.
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    Goats and Soda
    Mark Green has stepped down as administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after nearly three years on the job.
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    Exiting USAID Chief On The Pandemic, Foreign Aid, Trump's Policies

    Apr 29, 2020
    Mark Green talks to NPR about what it's like leaving during a global health crisis — and what the future may hold for the agency.
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    Politics
    Hot off the presses: President Trump's budget proposal for fiscal year 2021. The election year proposals are unlikely to gain traction in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
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    Trump Again Proposes Slashing Foreign Aid In Budget

    Feb 10, 2020
    President Trump proposed steep cuts to foreign aid and other programs in his budget for fiscal year 2021. The blueprint is expected to be declared dead on arrival in Congress.
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    Goats and Soda
    A 19-year-old woman talks with nurse Valeria Zafisoa at a traveling contraception clinic in eastern Madagascar run by the British nonprofit group Marie Stopes International.
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    Study: U.S. Ban On Aid To Foreign Clinics That 'Promote' Abortion Upped Abortion Rate

    Jun 27, 2019
    The aid cutoff is called the Mexico City policy. Republican presidents instate it. Democratic presidents call it off. A new report looks at the impact on abortion rates in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    World
    A father and his daughter cross a street under renovations as part of a U.S. aid grant in the village of al-Badhan, north of Nablus in Israeli occupied West Bank in August 2018.
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    Palestinian School And Sewage Projects Unfinished As U.S. Cuts Final Bit Of Aid

    Jan 17, 2019
    The White House has blocked efforts to finish U.S.-funded infrastructure projects in the West Bank and Gaza before a Feb. 1 aid cutoff date.
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    Latin America
    Migrants heading toward the U.S. carry Honduran and Guatemalan national flags in Guatemala on Monday. President Trump has threatened to cut off aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador for failing to stop the caravan's journey.
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    Food, Peace Building, Legal Aid: What Trump Would Cut From Central America

    Oct 24, 2018
    As thousands of migrants move toward the U.S., these are the programs President Trump is threatening to cut in retaliation.
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    Goats and Soda
    Workers offload U.S. aid destined for South Sudan. In a new index, the United States ranks poorly on many measures of foreign aid.
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    Why The U.S. Ranks At The Bottom In A Foreign Aid Index

    Sep 18, 2018
    In a newly published index, the Center for Global Development assesses the quantity and quality of aid from 27 wealthy countries.
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    Goats and Soda
    A man checks his phone to confirm that the charity GiveDirectly has transferred a cash grant to his account.
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    Which Foreign Aid Programs Work? The U.S. Runs A Test — But Won't Talk About It

    Sep 14, 2018
    USAID has launched a series of experiments to see how traditional aid compares to giving people cash. The first results are in. And they're proving controversial.
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    Middle East
    Palestinians receive aid at a United Nations food distribution center in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip this week.
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    Trump May Cut Suspended Aid To Palestinians Soon

    Aug 10, 2018
    After freezing millions of dollars in assistance, the Trump administration may be on the verge of formally cutting off the aid.
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    Goats and Soda
    This 2013 photo of schoolgirls in Haiti shows the slow progress in recovering from the 2010 earthquake.
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    The Lies We Tell About Foreign Aid

    Jun 04, 2018
    In his new book, Pablo Yanguas argues that fudged numbers, shallow aid projects and politics have created a dysfunctional aid system.
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    Parallels
    A Palestinian schoolgirl protests against a funding gap at the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Gaza City, in 2015.
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    'Half A Million Children' Are At Risk If The U.S. Cuts Palestinian Aid: U.N. Agency

    Feb 08, 2018
    NPR spoke to the director of U.N. relief operations in the West Bank about how he makes the case for America's continued assistance in the region.
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    The Two-Way
    President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he arrives for a New Year's Eve gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday.
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    Pakistani Leaders Fire Back At Trump Tweet Accusing Them Of 'Lies & Deceit'

    Jan 02, 2018
    In his first tweet of the new year, the president said Islamabad had been playing U.S. leaders for fools by taking billions in foreign aid and continuing to harbor Afghan extremists.
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    Goats and Soda
    Workers from a Chinese engineering company erect the African Union conference center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2010. China paid for the $200 million building as a gift to African Union.
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    Find Out Some (But Not All) The Secrets Of China's Foreign Aid

    Oct 31, 2017
    More than 100 researchers spent five years poring over documents to come up with data about how much is spent — and on what.
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    Bill Gates Predicts 'What's At Stake' With Proposed Trump Foreign Aid Cuts

    Sep 13, 2017
    The Gates Foundation has released projections showing the impact on new cases of HIV and issues like child mortality if there's a global drop in foreign aid.
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    Goats and Soda
    Creative Financing to Make Small-Scale Farming Technologies Affordable for the Rural Poor Small-scale farming is the principal source of livelihood for many in Kenya. Agriculture provides 71 percent of employment and accounts for over 25 percent of Kenya
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    U.S. Suspends Applications For 'Innovative' Anti-Poverty Efforts

    Jul 28, 2017
    The Development Innovation Ventures has earned bipartisan praise for the grants it gives to programs that help the poor. So why is there a temporary suspension of new grant applications?
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    The Side Effect Of That New Malaria Drug? American Jobs

    Jul 20, 2017
    The Trump administration wants to cut the U.S. global health budget. A new study puts a different spin on the spending.
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    We Asked, You Answered: Does U.S. Foreign Aid Raise Living Standards?

    May 31, 2017
    Researchers are split on the issue. We asked our audience to weigh in.
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    Goats and Soda
    A woman in a rural area of Kenya examines an intrauterine device during a visit from a outreach team sent by a family planning organization.
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    Trump's Proposed Budget Would Cut $2.2 Billion From Global Health Spending

    May 25, 2017
    The administration wants to reduce the current $8.7 billion global health budget by about 26 percent. Family planning programs would be the hardest hit.
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    Should America Keep Giving Billions Of Dollars To Countries In Need?

    May 18, 2017
    The matter of foreign aid has taken on renewed urgency in the Trump administration. And it turns out it isn't easy to figure out whether it's effective.
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    Politics
    Former President George W. Bush visits the Theresanyo primary school in Gaborone, Botswana, during an official visit on April 4.
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    George W. Bush Calls Foreign Aid A Moral And Security Imperative

    Apr 13, 2017
    Bush has dedicated billions to combat AIDS in Africa and recently traveled to the continent. If nothing had been done about the pandemic during his time in office, he said, "I would've been ashamed."
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    Politics
    President Trump is releasing his budget blueprint on Thursday, calling for a boost in military spending and deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other programs.
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    Trump Unveils 'Hard Power' Budget That Boosts Military Spending

    Mar 15, 2017
    President Trump's budget blueprint calls for a 10 percent increase in military spending, along with deep cuts in foreign aid and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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    Goats and Soda
    Sudanese dockers unload a U.S. aid shipment at Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast on May 5.
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    From AIDS To Zika: Trump On Global Health And Humanitarian Aid

    Nov 09, 2016
    It's too early to predict the impact of the Trump administration on global topics, but here are some of the president-elect's previous comments.

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