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Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: study
AFP
Tue, July 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM MST
More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.
The study in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet was published as world and business leaders met at a United Nations conference in Spain to try to bolster the reeling aid sector.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) had provided over 40 percent of global humanitarian funding until Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.
Two weeks later, Trump's then-close advisor -- and the world's richest man -- Elon Musk boasted of having put the agency "through the woodchipper".
The funding cuts "risk abruptly halting -- and even reversing -- two decades of progress in health among vulnerable populations", warned study co-author Davide Rasella, a researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
"For many low- and middle-income countries, the resulting shock would be comparable in scale to a global pandemic or a major armed conflict," he said in a statement.
Looking back over data from 133 nations, the international team of researchers estimated that USAID funding had prevented 91.8 million deaths in developing countries between 2001 and 2021.
That is more than the estimated number of deaths during World War II -- history's deadliest conflict.
- Children already dying -
The researchers also used modelling to project how funding being slashed by 83 percent -- the figure announced by the US government earlier this year -- could affect death rates.
The cuts could lead to more than 14 million avoidable deaths by 2030, the projections found.
That number included over 4.5 million children under the age of five -- or around 700,000 child deaths a year.
For comparison, around 10 million soldiers are estimated to have been killed during World War I.
USAID funding was found to be particularly effective at staving off preventable deaths from disease.
There were 65 percent fewer deaths from HIV/AIDS in countries receiving a high level of support compared to those with little or no USAID funding, the study found.
Deaths from malaria and neglected tropical diseases were similarly cut in half.
In South Sudan, people are already dying as a result of the US cuts, said Denish Ogen Rwot of the NGO Action Against Hunger, which has slashed its staffing in the country from 300 to 86.
"Already we are having children die," he told AFP.
A recently updated tracker run by disease modeller Brooke Nichols at Boston University estimates that nearly 108,000 adults and more than 224,000 children have already died as a result of the US aid cuts.
That works out to 88 deaths every hour, according to the tracker.
- More deaths from Europe, UK cuts -
After USAID was gutted, several other major donors, including France, Germany and the UK, followed suit in announcing plans to slash their foreign aid budgets.
These aid reductions, particularly in the European Union, could lead to "even more additional deaths in the coming years," study co-author Caterina Monti of ISGlobal said.
But the grim projections are based on the current amount of pledged aid, so could rapidly come down if the situation changes, the researchers emphasised.
Dozens of world leaders -- though no one from the United States -- attended an aid conference in the Spanish city of Seville this week.
A common declaration was adopted reaffirming previous goals but it is not legally binding.
This year's aid cuts spearheaded by the United States could also nearly double the number of people forced to flee their homes this year, the Danish Refugee Council warned Tuesday.
Before its funding was slashed, USAID represented 0.3 percent of all US federal spending.
"US citizens contribute about 17 cents per day to USAID, around $64 per year," said study co-author James Macinko of the University of California, Los Angeles.
"I think most people would support continued USAID funding if they knew just how effective such a small contribution can be to saving millions of lives."
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I wish I didn't have to keep pounding this, but people, especially in the third world, are going to die (some are already dying) because of US aid funding cuts. Not just USAID, but cuts in ALL funding sources, and now this has spread to the European community.
All so the rich can pay less taxes. It's obscene.
As I've said before, tens of millions will die before all is said and done.
And we thought Hitler was bad. -- Suzi
@Suzianne saidThey used the same excuse when they cut Medicaid funding, but there's nothing in the actual bill that addresses fraud. They just cut the dollar amount allocated.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-14-million-people-could-142221809.html
Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: study
AFP
Tue, July 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM MST
More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projec ...[text shortened]... of millions will die before all is said and done.
And we thought Hitler was bad. -- Suzi
@wildgrass saidThat is Trump's mantra: accuse the others of what he's doing himself.
They used the same excuse when they cut Medicaid funding, but there's nothing in the actual bill that addresses fraud. They just cut the dollar amount allocated.
@wildgrass saidFRAUD? In Medicaid? That has been proven to be near ZERO and is a SINISTER ZOMBIE talking point rational to cut Medicaid which WILL result in millions losing medical insurance AND rural hospitals closing because Medicaid supplies funding for those hospitals.
They used the same excuse when they cut Medicaid funding, but there's nothing in the actual bill that addresses fraud. They just cut the dollar amount allocated.
The cruelty of the budget bill is the POINT.
Repub senators as we speak KNOW there is something MASSIVELY wrong with that bill but their balls have totally disappeared so afraid of Trump they ALL are.
They gave up their power to provide oversight to POTUS AND SCOTUS because the entire idea of our government worked out by our forefathers is INDEPENDENT EQUAL branches of government.
Now that the fascist TRUMP is in power the just fell over playing dead and now Trump OWNS every repub in the government, Senate, house AND SCOTUS,
That is the HALLMARK of a dictator and you SHOULD know that.
@sonhouse saidThere is fraud, for sure. But cutting funding does not address it.
FRAUD? In Medicaid? That has been proven to be near ZERO and is a SINISTER ZOMBIE talking point rational to cut Medicaid which WILL result in millions losing medical insurance AND rural hospitals closing because Medicaid supplies funding for those hospitals.
The cruelty of the budget bill is the POINT.
Repub senators as we speak KNOW there is something MASSIVELY wrong wit ...[text shortened]... government, Senate, house AND SCOTUS,
That is the HALLMARK of a dictator and you SHOULD know that.
@wildgrass saidThere was very little outright fraud found but that was just an excuse to bamboozle Trump's base into believing Medicaid was no good top to bottom.
There is fraud, for sure. But cutting funding does not address it.
That was the case with ALL the agencies Trump screwed up. MASSIVE WASTE AND FRAUD was his mantra and his IDIOT base bought it hook line and sinker and so we see crap like National parks disappearing, NOAH cut to the bone, who the HELL needs tornado warnings anyway? Or USAID now the death toll is running 300,000 directly because of Trump and Musk and experts are saying the death toll will reach 11 MILLION by 2030.
All this traitorous activity is designed to end up Trump winning coup attempt V2 and Trump being KING Trump.
@Suzianne saidBottom line: Trump is a mass murderer.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-14-million-people-could-142221809.html
Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: study
AFP
Tue, July 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM MST
More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projec ...[text shortened]... of millions will die before all is said and done.
And we thought Hitler was bad. -- Suzi
@wildgrass saidThe fraud in Medicaid is entirely due to corporations over-billing. There is no fraud on the part of recipients. 😆
There is fraud, for sure. But cutting funding does not address it.
@spruce112358 saidExactly right.
The fraud in Medicaid is entirely due to corporations over-billing. There is no fraud on the part of recipients. 😆
@moonbus saidAnd on a lesser scale, firing so many people at the National Weather Service and FEMA have caused deaths in Texas.
Bottom line: Trump is a mass murderer.
But no one in Texas has the balls to say that.
Like I said, we need that little kid who pointed out the Emperor has no clothes.
Similarly, RFK Jr. not responding AT ALL to the measles epidemic in Texas has also killed many Texans, including kids. And, as a Trump appointee, that's on his head, too.
@sonhouse saidThe bill also requires people on Medicaid to work two weeks out of each month, or no benefits.
There was very little outright fraud found but that was just an excuse to bamboozle Trump's base into believing Medicaid was no good top to bottom.
That was the case with ALL the agencies Trump screwed up. MASSIVE WASTE AND FRAUD was his mantra and his IDIOT base bought it hook line and sinker and so we see crap like National parks disappearing, NOAH cut to the bone, who th ...[text shortened]... traitorous activity is designed to end up Trump winning coup attempt V2 and Trump being KING Trump.
And it's NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These guys are in charge of monitoring global warming. So yeah, no kidding, they had to go.
@Suzianne saidTrump has a lot of blood on his hands from his mismanagement of the COVID pandemic. Trump admitted to Bob Woodward that he lied to the American people how severe the virus would be.
And on a lesser scale, firing so many people at the National Weather Service and FEMA have caused deaths in Texas.
But no one in Texas has the balls to say that.
Like I said, we need that little kid who pointed out the Emperor has no clothes.
Similarly, RFK Jr. not responding AT ALL to the measles epidemic in Texas has also killed many Texans, including kids. And, as a Trump appointee, that's on his head, too.
@moonbus saidYep, I saw that interview.
Trump has a lot of blood on his hands from his mismanagement of the COVID pandemic. Trump admitted to Bob Woodward that he lied to the American people how severe the virus would be.
He claimed he didn't want to panic the people. More information is ALWAYS good, not bad. Keeping people in the dark is bad.