Gabriela Emanuel
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Lewin says September 30th is the new goal.
The Trump administration has been trying to shift foreign aid from largely going through nonprofits and international organizations to going through individual governments.
While more than two dozen agreements have been signed with recipient governments, others are not yet hammered out, and most implementation plans are not ready to go.
Meanwhile, interim funding for aid groups on the ground is sometimes arriving months late.
Caspian Chariah oversees HIV work in a dozen African countries for the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
In a statement to NPR, the State Department said it's taking decisive steps to ensure continuity of life-saving services.
Integrity looks like a good burn.
Pediatric cancers are generally not preventable, but with good medical care, they are treatable.
Still, in 2023, there were nearly 150,000 pediatric cancer deaths worldwide out of nearly 400,000 cases.
Jude's Children's Research Hospital co-authored the study published in The Lancet.
He says in the U.S., the vast majority of children with cancer survive, but not in parts of Africa and Asia.
That's because treating childhood cancer requires a well-functioning medical system.
He says this research demonstrates where health systems need bolstering.
Less than 20% of children will survive.
That disparity, that gap, is one of the largest in all of global health.