Belgium denies reports of $10m USAID contraceptives destroyed

Offers to buy and distribute the contraceptives in crisis-hit countries were ignored with Washington paying to have them burned instead

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2011 USDA visit to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipping and logistics facility in Miami, FL
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