The health consequences of foreign policy sanctions

The end of US assistance leads to an 'unprecedented' crisis in aid to displaced people

Heavily dependent on American funding, UN agencies providing aid to refugees and migrants are discontinuing several programs.

The reduction in funding threatens the health of nearly 13 million displaced persons, warned the United Nations on Friday, adding that financial uncertainty already had an impact on vulnerable refugees.

UN refugee agency warns nearly 13M displaced may lose access to life-saving health care due to funding cuts

UNHCR's health chief says funding crisis threatening refugee health globally, with major setbacks already unfolding - Anadolu Ajansı

The health consequences of foreign policy sanctions

Foreign aid sanctions reverse progress on child and maternal health and increase mortality rates, according to an analysis of three decades’ worth of data from 113 countries. Foreign aid sanctions reverse progress on child and maternal health and increase mortality rates, according to an analysis of three decades’ worth of data from 113 countries.

The shrinking African footprint of the Open Society Foundations

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), one of the world’s most influential philanthropic networks, is scaling back its physical presence in Africa as part of a global restructuring effort that has seen more than 40% of its staff laid off since the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation operates at a scale that inevitably courts criticism — some of it genuine, but much of it in the domain of conspiracy theories. Like the rest of us, the OSF woke up in …

UN says funding cuts threaten health of 13 mn displaced

GENEVA (AFP): Funding cuts are threatening the health of nearly 13 million displaced people, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR warned Friday, with the financial uncertainty already having an impact. Humanitarian organizations worldwide have been reeling since US President Donald Trump returned to office in January, pushing an anti-refugee and anti-migrant agenda and immediately freezing most US foreign aid funding. The United States has tr…