NEW YORK — It's the first United Nations General Assembly since President Donald Trump shook up the foreign aid landscape by cutting billions of dollars in assistance.

"There's a lot of anxiety, apprehension. It's almost like everybody's waiting for the other shoe to drop," says Solomon Zewdu, the CEO of The END Fund, a group that focuses on eliminating neglected tropical diseases.

He's one of thousands of people from all over the world who descended on Manhattan for a week of high-level meetings at the 80th session of the U.N. General Assembly.

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Solomon Zewdu, the CEO of The END Fund

Dr. Solomon Zewdu is based in South Africa and he says the thing that struck him most this General Assembly is that global health leaders are "talking in silos."

"We're not hear

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