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Nigeria committed $200 million to fill the funding void left by the US suspension of health aid in Africa’s most populous country as it approved its$36.6 billion budget for 2025.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization said it would release an additional $2 million to support Uganda’s response to its latest Ebola outbreak.
The pause in US funding has already affected contact tracing and screening of departing international travelers, an American official told CBS News last week.
The uncertainty around the future of USAID, the world’s single biggest aid donor, is raising urgent questions about which countries and blocs will step in to support vital aid projects in Africa.
Romilly Greenhill, CEO of Bond, a UK network of international development organizations, told Semafor the US cuts were undermining the country’s own interests to “ensure global health security,” and urged the international community to help mitigate the impact of the USAID freeze.
