The impacts of the U.S. aid cuts continue to disrupt major health and food programs, including cuts to the global U.S. HIV/AIDS initiative PEPFAR, and the potential for a massive increase in people facing emergency levels of food insecurity. Against this backdrop of financial strain, humanitarian efforts continued in escalating crises, including ongoing aid pushes in Gaza amid a faltering ceasefire and mass atrocities and displacement in Sudan’s el-Fasher.
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