Barnali Das waits outside her doctor’s office with her 4-month-old baby. Dr. Md. Shirajul Islam Sumon treated Das for tuberculosis when she was pregnant. Now, she wants to know why her baby has a worsening cough. But Sumon isn’t there. He was laid off, along with more than 1,600 others, when the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research stopped 10 of its projects in January. Those projects offered free TB services to patients. The work stoppage came when United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order that led to a pause in nearly all US-funded foreign aid projects. Nearly all employees of the United States Agency for International Development have been laid off.

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