Thousands of Cambodian health workers, field staff in USAID-funded TB project laid off: NGO chief


PHNOM PENH, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Cambodian frontline community health workers and field staff in a USAID-funded tuberculosis project had been laid off after the U.S. froze funding, a Cambodian health organization chief said on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign development assistance programs for 90 days on Jan. 20.

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