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'I'm alive thanks to US foreign aid'

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Summary
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72% Informative

The future of USAID ( the United States Agency for International Development ) is uncertain.

The agency distributes billions of dollars of aid around the world.

It has bases in more than 60 countries, and works in dozens of others.

Trump has said USAID is run by "radical left lunatics" and is getting away with "tremendous fraud".

If my hospital runs out of this medication, I will have to search for it elsewhere," he says. "But the tragedy for an HIV-positive person in Ukraine is that you cannot simply go to a pharmacy and buy these drugs. You cannot buy them on the black market. HIV-positive people here have no alternatives," he adds. "It is barbaric that we have returned to the Stone Age." Reporting by Diana Kuryshko , BBC Ukrainian ; Hafizullah Maroof , BBC Afghan ; Maryam Zohdi , BBC Persian ; Rehab Ismail , BBC Arabic ; George Wright .

VR Score

72

Informative language

67

Neutral language

79

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

47

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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