Key Highlights
- HIV/Aids programmes in Africa have been severely affected by the cuts to USAID.
- dwin Ndeke/The GuardianFive key moments in the assault on the rights of women and girls in 2025Since Trump’s second term began in January, global healthcare, especially for sexual and reproductive health, has been under constant attackThis time last year, women’s rights organisations were bracing themselves for a second Trump term.
- Few were prepared for the chaos that would be unleashed in January.
- The volume and speed of executive orders coming out of the White House were seen as a deliberate tactic to overwhelm and create panic.
- In many ways it worked – there was confusion, anger and exhaustion as organisations scrambled to fill the gap left by the USAID freeze.
