The Trump administration has suspended the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) program, but Nigeria and Uganda have started to find alternative ways to obtain financing.
The parliamentary speaker said Thursday that Nigerian lawmakers have passed a budget for 2025 worth 54.99 trillion naira ($36.6 billion), which was more than President Bola Tinubu had proposed.
According to Reuters, the government included $200 million in this budget to cover any gaps left by the suspension of funding to the Nigerian health system.
In the face of mounting doubts about the future of USAID, the largest assistance giver in the world, the action attempts to maintain vital healthcare initiatives in the most populous nation in Africa.
According to an American official who spoke to CBS News last week, the funding embargo has already affected important public health programs like contact tracing and screenings for foreign visitors.
In the meantime, the World Health Organization (WHO) is giving Uganda an extra $2 million to help bolster its response to the most recent Ebola outbreak in the nation.
Romilly Greenhill, CEO of Bond, a network of international development organizations located in the UK, urged the international community to intervene and support impacted programs, warning that the U.S. cuts could jeopardize global health security, according to Semafor.
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