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'We're just over the moon!' Good news for factories that make food for malnourished kids

One of the two US companies that makes emergency food for malnutrition is coming back online after it received a contract from the State Department. Earlier this year
- Gabrielle Emanuel
A word is born -- and critiqued: 'healthocide'

This week a new word made its public debut. With an increase in attacks on health care facilities and personnel, the goal of this coinage is to spark outrage and outcry. But the reaction is mixed.
- Ari Daniel
With $1K in cash aid, he built a life-changing barbershop. Now cash aid is under fire

This man in Mozambique is one of many who've received a cash sum with no strings attached. The Trump administration has criticized and curtailed the practice. Advocates are pushing back with evidence.
- Jonathan Lambert
To speak or not to speak: Why many aid groups are silent about the Trump cuts

Charities usually like to talk to the public about their good works. In the wake of the Trump aid cuts, there's a new approach: "anticipatory silence." It's controversial.
- Gabrielle Emanuel
What will rescission do to foreign aid? Details are murky. Here's what we found out

Congress approved the clawing back of $7.9 billion in foreign aid pledges. Who ends up losing out?
- Fatma Tanis
As Gaza starves, the next generation may also endure the consequences

U.N. officials say many people in Gaza are experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.
- Juliana Kim
The U.S. is destroying $9.7 million in contraceptives. Is there another option?

This planned destruction of birth control devices is part of the dismantling of USAID services — and linked to allegations by the government that cite abortion. Critics are speaking out.
- Rachel Treisman
Get ready, Brazil. The 'good mosquitoes' are coming

Scientists are driving around in white Chevys, releasing thousands of specially engineered mosquitoes from tubes — part of a pioneering project to reduce the spread of dengue, a terrible disease.
- Ari Daniel
What does PEPFAR's future look like?

When Congress approved a Trump administration plan to take back $9 billion in funds they'd previously allocated to public media and foreign aid, there was just one program that lawmakers decided to spare: The U.S.'s HIV/AIDS initiative or PEPFAR. Does that mean PEPFAR will return to its original role leading the world's HIV/AIDS response? Radio ran on ATC on Wednesday. DIgital for Thursday, hope to publish by 2 p.m.
- Gabrielle Emanuel
A genetic tweak could prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria

A new study reports on a novel way to short-circuit the parasite that spreads the disease so people wouldn't get infected with a mosquito's bite.
- Jonathan Lambert

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