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As countries dramatically cut foreign aid spending, The Independent has launched a new project to investigate the impact on the developing world. We will report on the repercussions for maternal health and the climate crisis and interrogate what the future holds. The project receives funding from the Gates Foundation. All of the journalism is editorially independent.

<p>Lenacapavir is seen by researchers as a key to ending the Aids pandemic</p>
Health

Millions of doses of breakthrough HIV jab at risk over Trump aid cuts

Hardlife, 15, and Shallom, 16 separately lost their parents to HIV in the last few months - Chimanimani, Zimbabwe
DocumentaryOn the ground with Bel Trew

Death Sentence: The real cost of Trump’s aid cuts on HIV

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US politics

Trump blames Europe as deadly impact of US cuts on Aids pandemic grows

<p>Hadja, a pregnant mother of three, is worried without her HIV medication the virus will transmit to her unborn baby</p>
Africa

Inside the devastating impact of US cuts on the Aids pandemic

<p>A Somali family wades through flood waters as they flee after overnight rains destroyed their home, in Wadajir district of Mogadishu, Somalia, earlier this month</p>
Climate

Revealed: The true cost of climate crisis for world’s poorest countries

<p>Women who left home thanks to violence take refuge in Nigeria</p>
UK News

60 charities demand UK reverse ‘shameful’ aid cuts

<p>Uganda’s hostility towards LGBT+ people is being heightened by the US slashing aid</p>
In FocusAfrica

How Trump’s aid cuts are inflicting double the pain on LGBT+ people in Africa

<p>Nozuko Majola is one of millions of patients in South Africa affected by foreign aid freeze – and the impact on her HIV medication</p>
Voices

This is the beginning of the end of foreign aid. What happens next?

<p>The leader of Burkina Faso’s military junta, Ibrahim Traore, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands</p>
Africa

How Russia is pushing to take control of Africa’s nuclear future

<p>Internally-displaced children look out from family's makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, earlier this year</p>
Africa

US slashing aid funds leaves millions facing famine

<p>Aid cuts have hit programmes across Africa</p>
Voices

Global aid cuts are a massive wake-up call for Africa

<p>Mozambican marines are seen guarding the docks of the LNG plant</p>
Africa

Death, violence, delay: Inside Africa’s most troubled energy project

<p>The staff at this HIV/Aids clinic in Jinja, Uganda are working for free after losing all their US funding - they fear running out of drugs </p>
Health

Trump’s cuts to foreign aid will cause 4 million Aids deaths by 2030

<p>Across Sub-Saharan Africa, girls and young women are more than twice as likely as their male peers to contract HIV</p>
Africa

Sexual violence survivors are collateral damage in Trump’s aid cuts

<p>‘Sexual and reproductive health is not a luxury, it is lifesaving’</p>
Voices

The UK cannot abandon women and girls worldwide by slashing aid

<p>StopEACOP activists in the KCB Uganda basement</p>
Climate

Activists accuse major bank of suppressing protest over oil pipeline

<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus</p>
Europe

Aid cuts forcing people in 70 countries to ‘miss out on medical care’

<p>Lomanat, 39, and her 18-month-old daughter Ereng, on the day she was discharged from malnutrition treatment in Turkana, Northern Kenya</p>
Africa

UK aid cuts will decimate the fight against malnutrition across Africa

<p>Gates has pledged to give away $200bn via his charitable foundation by 2045</p>
Americas

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing children’ through budget cuts

<p>American philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will donate 99 per cent of his remaining tech fortune to the Gates Foundation, which will now close in 2045</p>
Americas

Gates donates fortune to his foundation – giving it $200bn to spend

<p>Donald Trump has cut climate spending as part of his broader global aid cuts</p>
Climate

Trump is slashing US spending on climate aid. But all is not lost

<p>Zain, a 13-year-old boy from rural Pakistan, whose life is already impacted by 50°C heatwaves, and whose home was destroyed by devastating floods in 2022. He is pictured with his mum, Sughra, 35</p>
Climate

Tens of millions of children to face dangerous levels of heat

<p>Mothers sit in the recently build maternity clinic in the village of Podiagouime, Ivory Coast</p>
Health

Trump’s cuts to contraception will kill ‘tens of thousands’ of women

<p>The Trump=ordered aid cuts have had a particular impact in Africa</p>
Health

Trump’s deadline to review US aid cuts has passed – so what now?

<p>A healthcare worker in the Family Hope Clinic in Uganda administers HIV medication </p>
Health

WHO warns Trump cuts put millions of HIV patients at risk

<p>The closure of USAID and other cuts has left the Aids community especially vulnerable</p>
Voices

I’m an HIV doctor – we should be very afraid of cuts to Aids funding

<p>Desta Abreha, 32, and her 8-month-old baby girl Capital, receive malnourishment<a href="/topic/malnutrition"></a> assistance at Hitsats Internally Displaced Persons Camp in the Tigray region of Ethiopia</p>
World

Cuts to food aid put more than 3 million people at risk in Ethiopia

<p>HIV medication prepared in Sierra Leone</p>
Health

What is drug resistance and why is it a problem?

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US politics

Campaigners and charities horrified by USAID cut revelations

<p>Recent days have seen the DRC grapple with devastating floods that have killed at least 72 people and injured 170 more</p>
Climate

Deadly floods in DRC becoming more likely with climate change

<p>HIV medication prepared in Sierra Leone</p>
Health

What is drug resistance and why is it a problem?

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US politics

Campaigners and charities horrified by USAID cut revelations

<p>Recent days have seen the DRC grapple with devastating floods that have killed at least 72 people and injured 170 more</p>
Climate

Deadly floods in DRC becoming more likely with climate change

<p>World Food Programme packages, paid for with international aid, await passage across the Reyhanli Border Crossing to Syria</p>
World

International aid fell in 2024 for first time in five years

<p>Foreign aid cuts mean the government will likely be forced to scale back programmes across global education, family planning, water and food aid. </p>
UK Politics

‘Savage’ UK cuts will deprive 55m people of aid around the world

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Climate

Why USAID is such a critical piece of the global climate aid puzzle

<p>A young mother of twins waits for her children to receive vaccinations in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world</p>
Health

One pregnant woman dies every two minutes globally, new figures reveal

<p>Donald Trump stated that the reductions, which began after he assumed office on January 20, aligned with his ‘America First" agenda’</p>
Africa

Death of children during hospital trek blamed on Trump’s aid cuts

<p>Annette was raped on her way to school three years ago and gave birth at 15</p>
Health

The deadly truth as family planning slashed in Trump’s global aid cuts

<p>A young mother of twins waits for her children to receive vaccinations in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world</p>
Health

One pregnant woman dies every two minutes globally, new figures reveal

<p>Donald Trump stated that the reductions, which began after he assumed office on January 20, aligned with his ‘America First" agenda’</p>
Africa

Death of children during hospital trek blamed on Trump’s aid cuts

<p>Annette was raped on her way to school three years ago and gave birth at 15</p>
Health

The deadly truth as family planning slashed in Trump’s global aid cuts

<p>The Kariba Dam hydroelectric plant, whose record low waters prompted Zambia and Zimbabwe to propose new coal-fired power stations</p>
Climate

Drought fuels demand for new coal power stations

<p>British foreign secretary David Lammy meets patients in a malnutrition centre in Adre, Chad near the border with South Sudan where thousands of refugees have been crossing. Mr Lammy visited on January 24 before the government announced cuts to the UK foreign aid budget</p>
Voices

Foreign aid is how countries show their character to the world

<p>Protesters gather at a rally supporting the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), near the US Capitol, Washington, DC, on 5 February 2025</p>
World

Trump’s aid cuts deny a million women a week access to contraception

<p>Demonstrators protest against cuts to American foreign aid spending, in Washington DC, Feb. 26, 2025 (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)</p>
Health

Reproductive health thrown into ‘chaos’ after Trump aid freeze

<p>Anneliese Dodds has resigned as minister for international development over the prime minister’s bid to cut the foreign aid budget to increase defence spending (Lucy North/PA)</p>
Voices

Anneliese Dodds had to resign over cutting aid to the world’s poorest

<p>Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has slashed the aid budget to fund a dramatic increase in defence spending (Frank Augstein/PA)</p>
Voices

Making the most defenceless people pay for UK defence is reprehensible

<p>Donald Trump has ordered aid cuts to projects designed to tackle the climate crisis</p>
Climate

The world is experiencing record heat – and it’s about to get worse

<p>A Somali child looks out from her family's makeshift home in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)</p>
World

Who funds global aid – and where do the billions of dollars go?

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