Foreign aid organizations are in turmoil after the Trump administration cut several million dollars of funding and fired nearly 1,600 employees of the United States Agency for International Development.

JOHANNESBURG - Aid organisations across the globe continue to feel the wrath of the Trump administration's foreign aid cuts. WATCH: USAID cuts | Funding cuts could reverse 25 years of progress Apart from leaving HIV patients in dire straits,

U.S. Agency for International Development workers were allowed to briefly reenter the headquarters in Washington on Thursday to collect their personal belongings and clear out their desks, a day after President Donald Trump's administration said it was cutting more than 90% of the agency's aid contracts.