Tag Archives: Health Care Workers

Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending

Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending

A few days ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, embarked on a media tour to defend his decision to lay off thousands of his department’s workers. He announced a plan last week to cut 10,000 jobs, in addition to the estimated 10,000 jobs cut through retirements and buyouts in the early weeks of the Trump administration. Mr. Kennedy …

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Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally

Dalvin Modore walked as if there was broken glass beneath his feet, stepping gingerly, his frail shoulders hunched against the anticipation of pain. His trousers had become so loose that he had to hold them up as he inched around his small farm in western Kenya. Mr. Modore has tuberculosis. He is 40, a tall man whose weight has dropped …

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Pause on U.S. Funding Spreads Fear of H.I.V. Spike Across Africa

Pause on U.S. Funding Spreads Fear of H.I.V. Spike Across Africa

As he does every three months, Sibusiso traveled on Wednesday morning to a clinic in the capital of Eswatini, a tiny southern African nation, to get a refill of the H.I.V. medication he needs to save his life. When he arrived, the door was locked and about 20 other patients stood outside, baffled that the clinic was closed. Sibusiso, 39 …

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