{"id":3996,"date":"2025-03-01T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2025-03-01T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T08:48:15","slug":"us-funding-cuts-confirmed-ending-lifesaving-support-for-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=3996","title":{"rendered":"US funding cuts confirmed, ending lifesaving support for women and girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The United States has cut $377 million worth of funding to the UN reproductive and sexual health agency, UNFPA, it was confirmed on Thursday, leading to potentially \u201cdevasting impacts\u201d, on women and girls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAt 7pm on 26 February, UNFPA was informed that nearly all of our grants (48 as of now) with USAID and the US State Department have been terminated,\u201d the UN agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThis decision will have devastating impacts on women and girls and the health and aid workers who serve them in the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The USAID grants were designated to provide critical maternal healthcare, protection from violence, rape treatment and other lifesaving care in humanitarian settings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This includes UNFPA\u2019s work to end maternal death, safely deliver babies and address horrific violence faced by women and girls in places like Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has cut $377 million worth of funding to the UN reproductive and sexual health agency, UNFPA, it was confirmed on Thursday, leading to potentially \u201cdevasting impacts\u201d, on women and girls. \u201cAt 7pm on 26 February, UNFPA was informed that nearly all of our grants (48 as of now) with USAID and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english-gate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}