“Jeffrey Okoro is the executive director of the NGO CFK Africa in Kenya. He said that since the decision of the US government to freeze US Agency for International Development (USAID) spending in January, Kenyans working in healthcare are directly affected.
The decision has already disrupted efforts to stop the spread of diseases like HIV and tuberculosis.
“A sizeable portion of the Kenyan government funding for health counselling comes from international organisations from foreign governments,” Okoro told RFI from his office in Kenya.
And this has affected a huge portion of the health workforce, mainly through the ‘stop work’ order.”
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