Experts warn of threat to global health as Trump freezes USAID

Experts in global health have been expressing their dismay and concern over the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which distributes tens of billions of dollars’ worth of overseas aid every year…

Dr Tom Wingfield, an expert in tuberculosis (TB) and social medicine at the UK’s Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, told the BBC it is hard to underplay the impact of the decision to dismantle USAID.