The Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development have had reverberations around the world. The agency, which operated in over 100 nations and employed thousands of people, has been virtually eliminated. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangham reports on the impact USAID cuts are having on HIV testing and treatment in Kenya.
William and his team visited CFK’s HQ in Kibera to discuss the impact CFK has witnessed due to USAID funding cuts: “Jeffrey Okoro runs CFK Africa, a large nonprofit in Nairobi that provides HIV care and many other services in Kibera, the poorest, densest neighborhood in Kenya, with alarmingly high rates of HIV. It too lost critical support from USAID”
“The immediate reaction was shock, and we couldn’t understand the logic to it… The consequences are felt right now across the country and even across Africa,” said Jeffrey Okoro, Executive Director.
Listen to the full interview on PBS News Hour.
