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美国驻海外的疾病防控机构正逐步关闭America’s disease detectives overseas are starting to close up shop

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美国国务院调整了对外援助政策,这直接影响了疾病控制与预防中心在海外的工作模式。

The State Department’s new approach to foreign aid is changing the way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention works abroad.

随着特朗普总统‘美国优先’的外交政策逐步实施,这个负责应对海外疫情的机构规模正在不断缩小。

The government agency charged with combating disease outbreaks abroad is shrinking as President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to foreign policy takes hold.

周四,该中心在安哥拉和南苏丹的办事处相继关闭,津巴布韦办事处也定于今年年底停摆。

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offices in Angola and South Sudan closed Thursday, with the office in Zimbabwe set to shut its doors at the end of the year.

多位现任及前任官员向POLITICO透露,未来几年预计还将有十余个海外办事处相继关闭。

Current and former CDC officials told POLITICO they expect more than a dozen other foreign offices will follow in the next few years.

去年,特朗普政府撤销了负责对外援助的美国国际开发署,同时马斯克领导的政府效率部大幅削减人员编制,给该机构带来双重打击。目前,CDC的员工人数较特朗普上任时减少了30%。

It’s the latest blow to an agency that took a dual hit last year when Trump shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, its partner in providing foreign assistance, and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency slashed staffing. The CDC has 30% fewer employees than when Trump took office.

致力于推动艾滋病治疗普及的非营利组织Health GAP的执行主任阿西亚·拉塞尔警告称,这些办事处的关闭‘将导致海外出现大量本可避免的感染病例与死亡事件’。

The office closures “will result in preventable infections and death overseas,” said Asia Russell, the executive director of Health GAP, a nonprofit advocating for access to HIV treatment.