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Kristen Gelineau
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Associated Press Global Investigations Correspondent. Based in Sydney, covering stories across Asia-Pacific.
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    Kristen Gelineau
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    Jul 24
    In Nepal, HIV outreach workers left jobless by U.S. foreign aid cuts turn to sex work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.
    In this composite photo Rubi Lama, who is transgender and former aid worker who turned to sex work to survive after losing her job amid the U.S. foreign aid cuts, poses for a photo on Friday May 15, 2026, in Hetauda, Nepal. At left is before she dresses up before going to work, at right is after. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
    Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive
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    Kristen Gelineau
    @KristenGelineau
    Mar 25
    Humanitarian groups hobbled by U.S. funding cuts and struggling to fund their response to the war in the Middle East decry billions being spent on the conflict. U.N. humanitarian chief says: "With a fraction of this money, we can save millions of lives."
    A man unloads humanitarian aid supplied by the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, at a school in Beirut used as a shelter for people displaced by Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
    Aid groups crippled by foreign aid cuts plead for funds as Middle East humanitarian crisis grows
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    Kristen Gelineau
    @KristenGelineau
    Dec 17, 2025
    Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
    Hasina, a Rohingya refugee girl, sits inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
    Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
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    Kristen Gelineau
    @KristenGelineau
    Oct 8, 2025
    'The lowest layer of hell': Children are screaming and crying for food as U.S. foreign aid cuts lead to devastation and death in Myanmar.
    AP Illustration/Dario Lopez-Mills Sources: AP Photo, Mapcreator, and Taher family via AP
    Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
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    Kristen Gelineau
    @KristenGelineau
    May 8, 2024
    "They tortured us." Survivors of a boat capsize that killed 67 Rohingya refugees, including 28 children, tell AP the captain raped girls on board before purposely sinking the vessel.
    Aboard a small fishing boat, Rohingya refugees faced abuse and other horrors. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
    'They tortured us': Rohingya survivors of fatal capsize say captain raped girls, purposely sank boat
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