White House Trumpets Success of Obama-Era Disease-Fighting Program It Plans to Cut
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White House Trumpets Success of Obama-Era Disease-Fighting Program It Plans to Cut

KAROLY ARVAI

The New York Times’ Emily Baumgaertner reports:

“The National Security Council released a report on Monday trumpeting the achievements of the multinational Global Health Security Agenda, which helps low-income countries halt epidemics before they cross borders. The report ‘clearly shows how the investments made by taxpayers to improve global health security are paying dividends,’ White House officials said in the announcement.

“But the United States is set to dramatically shrink its contributions to the initiative, a point that the report omitted. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to narrow epidemic work from 49 countries to 10, an agency spokeswoman said.”

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