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I'm glad the money was released, but the Administration had no valid reason to hold it up in the first place. Now they've gotten the U S. a seat on Gavi's board.

Trump administration unfreezes $600M for Gavi global vaccine effort The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it would release $600 million in funding appropriated by Congress to an immunization program that serves children in poor countries. The move…

Thank you Senator Cornyn!

Cornyn uses Trump diplomatic nominee votes to pry loose PEPFAR funds Texas Sen. John Cornyn advanced two diplomatic nominations out of committee after the Trump White House committed to releasing HIV/AIDS funds.

If the U.S. debt matters, so does the soaring cost of war with Iran | Letters The U.S. debt is approaching $40 trillion, and the bombing campaign of Iran is only adding to the spending, a reader says.

Great snapshot of what is going on with US humanatarian assistance!

“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid Lawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalating a constitutional crisis.

Even under relentless missile and drone attacks in Kharkiv, health workers continue the vital but often unseen work of detecting and treating tuberculosis (TB) – helping protect millions from the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

Without treatment, a single person with TB can infect up to 15 others in a year. Every diagnosis and every person started on treatment prevents further transmission, helping to contain outbreaks before they spread.

With support from The Global Fund and partners, Ukraine has maintained its TB diagnostic capacity through a nationwide network of 224 laboratories equipped with modern diagnostic technologies – ensuring the people most affected by the war are diagnosed for TB and rapidly put on treatment.

Read more: https://stories.theglobalfund.org/ukraine-the-hidden-battle-to-protect-millions-from-tuberculosis-and-other-deadly-diseases

Sunday's Austin American Statesman:

Ebola a real threat

Re: June 8 article, “Health workers in Congo labor with little pay, rest amid Ebola outbreak”

The medical professionals struggling to save lives and stop the spread of Ebola are ill-equipped because of the Trump administration’s wanton destruction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its mechanisms to check pandemics before they spread.

That the leader of the free world, obsessed over construction details for his gilded ballroom, is heedless of the Ebola emergency, is truly a source of shame for the American people.

The United States is a wealthy nation and foreign assistance takes less than 1% of our federal budget.

We must demand that our congressional representatives take back the power of the purse and restore our role as leader of global humanitarian assistance.

It is the right thing to do, and it is also in our best interest to fight Ebola in other countries, so we won’t have to fight it here.

Claudia Morgan, Austin

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Line between church and state is blurry in Texas | Letters A reader wants to know what happened to separation of church and state in Texas.

Senator Todd Young announces a new End TB Now Act, to protect America. He quotes RESULTS executive director, Joanne Carter. She thanks him for "driving a clear, measurable, accountable" to help end TB.

Young, Shaheen Reintroduce Bill to Combat Tuberculosis Globally - Senator Young WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) reintroduced the End Tuberculosis Now Act, bipartisan legislation that makes the elimination of tuberculosis (TB) a foreign assistance priority for the United States.  By improving U.S. and international coordinat...

Heard from Jos Linn, RESULTS grassroots leader: "Hope is not in your feed. Hope is in your feet!"

TB anywhere is TB everywhere

Texas TB Surge Raises Alarm as Most Infected Residents Remain Unaware For nearly three decades, tuberculosis followed a reassuring trajectory in the United States: case counts declining year after year, the disease receding from public consciousness, treated as a solved problem of the developing world rather than an active threat in American cities.

This delayed and subdued response by CDC, is troubling, especially compared with the their engaged efforts in trying to control the spread of Covid-19 on the cruise ship Diamond Princess in 2020 when it was quarantined off Japan for two weeks. It does not help that the USA has pulled out of WHO.

‘Empty and vapid’ CDC finally responds to hantavirus outbreak. But experts say it’s too little, too late World Health Organization – which the US left under Trump – has been leading the response to the cruise ship outbreak