Salome Mbithe, a researcher at Accu Check Solutions, was forced to scale back field work in sub-Saharan Africa monitoring disease and collecting data following foreign aid cuts by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Despite the cuts, however, Ms. Mbithe remains optimistic.
Thousands of contractors are laid off in the United States and abroad, and global aid organizations are cut from previously reliable grants following the freeze on USAID funds....
