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Charities reeling from USAid freeze warn of ‘life or death’ effects

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Aid workers in Bangladesh fear refugee camp infrastructure will crumble.

Mobile health units may have to stop treating civilians near the frontline in Ukraine .

Clinics in Uganda are scrambling to find new sources for vital HIV drugs.

The US president’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief ( Pepfar ) is included in the order.

Dr Atul Gawande , who was assistant administrator for global health at USAid under the Biden administration, said the order had done “serious damage to the world and the US ” It would stop work fighting a deadly Marburg outbreak in Tanzania and an mpox variant killing children in west Africa .

It will also affect programmes monitoring the spread of bird flu, and working to eradicate polio and tropical diseases such as river blindness.

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