The Trump administration has cancelled a USAID contract that was due to supply about 100,000 emergency post-rape kits to the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to United Nations officials and aid groups. The kits, which contain HIV prophylaxis, antibiotics and emergency contraception, were expected to restock roughly 2,000 health facilities in the country’s conflict-torn east. Aid workers say the abrupt termination, which came as violence escalated and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized territory in January, has left thousands of survivors without life-saving medication. The UN reports some 67,000 rape cases have been logged this year, yet only 13% of survivors now receive HIV prevention drugs within the critical 72-hour window. UNFPA estimates it needs about $35 million from other donors to replace the lost U.S. funding and warns that gaps in care risk higher HIV transmission, unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions. The State Department has not commented on why the contract was pulled, part of a broader foreign-aid freeze ordered early in the Trump presidency.