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Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive
- U.S. cuts that dissolved USAID left hundreds of thousands of overseas aid workers jobless, gutting local NGOs and services.
- In Nepal, transgender HIV outreach workers like Rubi Lama lost their jobs and many were forced into sex work, facing violence and stigma.
- The funding halt also stopped HIV prevention services—PrEP, testing and condom distribution—raising fears of a spike in infections.
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