Mission Aborted: Trump’s War on Maternal Care
Donald Trump
In the opening moments of his presidency, Donald Trump made dramatic and sweeping cuts to US international aid. His main target: family planning programs worldwide. The president even wrongly accused USAID of sending $50m-worth of condoms to Hamas militants in Gaza. Now, countries are running out of key contraceptives, clinics are being forced to abandon their patients, and tens-of-thousands of women and girls could die. The Independent’s Bel Trew travelled to Uganda and Zimbabwe, where the
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