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Foreign aid agency USAID in crisis as Trump, Musk threaten shutdownA woman and her daughter attend a medical consultation at a mobile clinic operated by the Institute for Population Health and Development (ISPD), in partnership with USAID and IOM, at the Marie Jeanne High School refugee camp in central Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 29, 2024. The clinic offers general healthcare services to refugees.
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