{"id":282766,"date":"2026-02-13T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:55:11","slug":"time100-health-josephine-barasa-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282766\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Josephine Barasa | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Community health workers across the globe were affected by public health funding cuts by the Trump Administration\u2014in Nigeria alone, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/774709-nigerian-govt-to-absorb-28000-health-workers-formerly-paid-by-usaid.html#:~:text=Mr%20Pate%20acknowledged%20the%20significant,transit%20them%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">28,000 community health workers had their USAID-paid salaries evaporate<\/a>. In Kenya, community health worker Josephine Barasa has been mentoring and advising young women in Nairobi on issues related to sexual health and gender violence. There\u2019s plenty of need: Many of the girls she works with have no money for school supplies or period products, and may be pressed into paying for them with sex. In early 2025, however, Barasa\u2019s job disappeared when the funds from USAID paying her salary were eliminated. Barasa, who has formed relationships with girls and their families over the years, felt so strongly that her work was needed that she has continued to show up as a volunteer. \u201cI talk to them about how they can empower themselves, either by starting small income generating activities within their reach,\u201d she says, \u201cor sometimes I link them to organizations which can support them. They have the ability. They can still do something, with whatever they have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community health workers across the globe were affected by public health funding cuts by the Trump Administration\u2014in Nigeria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[54805,13687,134,527,10005,4974,111,139,69,54807,16498,156689],"class_list":{"0":"post-282766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-list","13":"tag-magazine","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}