As It Happens This NGO tried to save $13M worth of USAID contraceptives from being burned

The U.S. State Department plans to incinerate roughly $13.2 million worth of women's contraceptives despite offers from multiple aid agencies to distribute the supplies at no cost.

The supplies, which include various forms of birth control, were intended for family planning programs in low-income African nations.

Instead, they've been sitting in a warehouse in Belgium for months after President Donald Trump's administration froze most foreign aid in January.

MSI Reproductive Choices, a U.K.-based global reproductive health organization, says it offered to take the supplies and distribute them to those in need at no cost to the government, but their offer was rebuked.

"To me that sends a reall

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