Northern Kenya suffers in silence after USAid cut off

Members of the pharmacology department take inventory of the last boxes of drugs delivered by the now-dismantled USAID amid medical supply shortages in a pharmacy storeroom at Lodwar County Referral Hospital, on April 1, 2025. [AFP]

In Kenya's largest and poorest county, the despair of a beleaguered hospital director is palpable as he explains that the dismantling of American-funded aid means his facility will run out of USAid drugs next month.

"From then on, I don't know," Ekiru Kidalio said, worried about lack of treatment for measles and HIV among other things.