Gabrielle Emanuel
Global Health Correspondent at NPR
journalist for @wbur email me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
kpbs.org | Gabrielle Emanuel |Jonathan Lambert
In testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 21, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared: "No one has died because of USAID [cuts]" – the cutoff of billions of dollars of U.S. support for global health programs. At a subsequent congressional hearing, he said, "No children are dying on my watch."Mariam Mohammed begs to differ. The widowed mother of two says her younger son — 7-year-old Babagana Bukar Mohammed — died as a result of the disruptions to U.S. foreign aid.
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2 weeks ago |
wesa.fm | Gabrielle Emanuel
SCOTT DETROW, HOST:This year has brought a stream of bad news for many African countries as the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in foreign aid, often shutting down programs entirely and on short notice. Recently, the U.S. ambassador to Zambia announced yet another cut in assistance, but the reason for this cut was different, and it triggered very mixed feelings from people in Zambia. NPR's Gabrielle Emanuel has the story.
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1 month ago |
wfae.org | Gabrielle Emanuel |Rebecca Davis
On a morning in early April, Geoffrey Chanda's phone was going off almost constantly. Truck drivers were calling him. "They are crying: 'We've got no [HIV] medicine. Where do you get [it] from?' " says Chanda, 54. For 15 years, Chanda has been meeting truckers in dusty parking lots at the border of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to give them their HIV medications. Now, he says, he doesn't know what to tell them. He's lost his job as a community health worker.
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1 month ago |
npr.org | Emily Kwong |Hannah Chinn |Selena Simmons-Duffin |Gabrielle Emanuel |Rebecca Ramirez
Here's how the Trump administration has changed health policy in its first 100 days Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1248091518/1269229654" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> People hold handmade signs at a Stand up for Science rally protesting the Trump administration's science policies and federal job cuts on Friday, March 7, 2025, in Chicago. Nam Y.
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1 month ago |
kpbs.org | Gabrielle Emanuel |Rebecca Davis
On a morning in early April, Geoffrey Chanda's phone was going off almost constantly. Truck drivers were calling him. "They are crying: 'We've got no [HIV] medicine. Where do you get [it] from?' " says Chanda, 54. For 15 years, Chanda has been meeting truckers in dusty parking lots at the border of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to give them their HIV medications. Now, he says, he doesn't know what to tell them. He's lost his job as a community health worker.
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