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[https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/08/11/thailand-aid-cuts-put-myanmar-refugees-at-grave-risk by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 11/8/25]

The Trump administration’s dismantling of foreign assistance, along with other donor shortfalls, led to the termination of most food assistance provided by The Border Consortium (TBC) and primary healthcare services from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the nine camps along the Thai-Myanmar border on July 31, 2025. Cuts since January have already led to the deaths of refugees, who are barred from working legally, moving freely, or accessing services in Thailand, leaving them largely dependent on foreign assistance.

=====Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID=====

[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/usaid by DEMOCRACY NOW 13/11/25]

“We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.” We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administration’s near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande, the head of global health at USAID during the Biden administration, is featured in the short film Rovina’s Choice, filmed at a refugee camp at the border between Kenya and South Sudan earlier this year.

=====Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts=====

[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/6/famine_sudan by DEMOCRACY NOW 6/10/25]

Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who just returned from Sudan, says that the famine is man-made.

=====Fight against tuberculosis stalls in Bangladesh as U.S. cuts aid=====

[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fight-against-tuberculosis-stalls-in-bangladesh-as-u-s-cuts-aid by Fred de Sam Lazaro 14/8/25 PBS NEWS]

Earlier this year, the Trump administration’s defunding of USAID brought an abrupt halt to hundreds of global health programs, including those targeting tuberculosis. The disease kills more people than any other infectious agent worldwide, about 1.25 million in 2023. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Bangladesh on efforts to contain the fallout.

=====“Millions of Lives at Risk”: USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty and Disease=====

[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/13/us_aid_cuts_international_impact by DEMOCRACY NOW 13/6/25]

NERMEEN SHAIKH: For more on the dismantling of USAID and what it means for people around the world, we’re joined now by two guests. In Oslo, Jan Egeland is with us, with the Norwegian Refugee Council. He’s just returned from a trip to Mozambique. And here in New York, we’re joined by Amanda Klasing, national director of government relations and advocacy with Amnesty International USA, which has just released a report titled “Lives at Risk: Chaotic and Abrupt Cuts to Foreign Aid Put Millions of Lives at Risk.”

=====U.S. Cuts Aid to Somalia But Continues to Bomb It=====

[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/11/headlines/us_cuts_aid_to_somalia_but_continues_to_bomb_it by DEMOCRACY NOW 11/7/25]

Moazzam Malik: “Many communities, many children, many families are very vulnerable following drought years over the last few years, the loss of livelihoods, the loss of livestock, and they’re in desperate need. And at the same time that they face desperate needs with drought, with climate change impacts, they’re of course suffering now the impact of aid cuts.”

=====Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts=====

[https://apnews.com/article/usaid-rohingya-exploitation-trump-budget-cuts-ebd7a05e2f507b810194e71ae6b3c515 by KRISTEN GELINEAU 16/12/25 AP]

Ever since the military in her homeland of Myanmar killed her father in 2017, forcing her to flee to neighboring Bangladesh with her mother and little sisters, the school had protected Hasina from the predators who prowl her refugee camp, home to 1.2 million members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority.

=====The Impact of Foreign Aid Cuts=====

[https://betterworldcampaign.org/impact-of-foreign-assistance-cuts by BETTER WORLD CAMPAIGN]

2025 has brought the largest restructuring of U.S. foreign assistance in history, with thousands of UN programs losing funds and others facing drastic reforms. Like most Americans, we know that aid isn’t charity. It saves lives, strengthens democracies and advances America’s security. We hope policymakers will rethink these cuts and recognize foreign assistance for what it is — a smart investment in our future.

=====USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths=====

[https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ by Karen Feldscher 20/11/25 HARVARD T.H CHAN]

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande.

=====‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/17/trojan-horse-moment-anti-rights-groups-fill-void-us-aid-cuts by Isabel Choat 17/12/25 The Guardian]

A new study projects that U.S. funding cuts to global health aid will have a catastrophic effect on pediatric TB, with children in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia likely to experience a significant spike in preventable cases and deaths over the next decade—even by the most conservative estimates—unless funding is restored.

=====U.S. aid cuts put millions in peril=====

[https://www.rescue.org/article/us-aid-cuts-put-millions-peril by INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITEE 28/2/25]

The Department of State has terminated over 10,000 foreign aid grants and contracts in a devastating blow to global humanitarian efforts. This decision has severely impacted communities worldwide.

=====US Government fuelling global humanitarian catastrophe: UN experts=====

[https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/us-government-fuelling-global-humanitarian-catastrophe-un-experts by united Nations 31/7/25]

GENEVA – The abrupt suspension of United States of America’s foreign aid has fuelled a global humanitarian catastrophe – made worse by the administration’s failure to publish a review it committed to undertake of USAID contracts and disbursements, UN human rights experts* said today.

=====The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands=====

[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands by Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong 5/11/25 THE NEW YORKER]

t was January, my final week in the outgoing Administration. In a few days, Donald Trump would be inaugurated as President. I had come to the United States Agency for International Development in early 2022, leaving my surgery practice and public-health research in Boston to lead the agency’s global-health efforts. Now I’d be returning to my previous life.

=====Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts=====

[https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipated-deaths-from-usaid-funding-cuts/ by Jillian McKoy 21/3/25 School of Public Health]

Over the last two months, the Trump administration’s slashing of US foreign aid and systematic dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have severely disrupted the lives of populations abroad who rely on this funding for disease detection and treatment, nutrition assistance, and other vital public health services.

=====U.S. Aid Cuts Are Hitting Global Conservation Projects Hard=====

[https://e360.yale.edu/features/usaid-cuts-conservation by Adam Welz 23/4/25 YaleEnvironment360]

On February 3, Elon Musk typed a now-notorious post to his social media platform X: “Spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone [sic] to some great parties. Did that instead.”

=====USAID Cuts Weaken U.S. Influence at the United Nations=====

[https://www.csis.org/analysis/usaid-cuts-weaken-us-influence-united-nations by Allison Lombardo 19/5/25 CSIS]

As part of its stated intention to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and circumscribe U.S. foreign assistance, the Trump administration announced recently that it had terminated at least 5,341 foreign aid projects, including an estimated 211 awards to various UN agencies for implementing development and humanitarian programs around the world. Some U.S. leverage may go with them.

=====US aid cuts are a soft power surrender to China=====

[https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/us-aid-cuts-are-soft-power-surrender-china by theinterpreter]

China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval underway. It shows that the aid cuts will restore China as the world’s largest bilateral development partner, with the United States ceding larger partner status to China in more than 40 countries.

=====Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year=====

[https://ourworldindata.org/us-foreign-aid-saved-millions by Simon van Teutem and Hannah Ritchie 28/9/25 Our World in Data]

In total dollars spent, the United States was the world’s largest foreign aid donor in 2023. It gave $62 billion, about the same as the next three largest donors combined: Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The chart below shows the ten largest givers.

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+{{#seo:
+|title=USAID cuts 2025
+|description=A collection of articles about USAID
+|keywords=Hunger Crisis, Deaths, HIV, Migration, Diseases, Foreign Aid, Globe, Rescue
+|image=File:USAID cuts 2025.jpg
+|image_width=300
+|image_height=200}}
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 [https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/08/11/thailand-aid-cuts-put-myanmar-refugees-at-grave-risk by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 11/8/25]
   The Trump administration’s dismantling of foreign assistance, along with other donor shortfalls, led to the termination of most food assistance provided by The Border Consortium (TBC) and primary healthcare services from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the nine camps along the Thai-Myanmar border on July 31, 2025. Cuts since January have already led to the deaths of refugees, who are barred from working legally, moving freely, or accessing services in Thailand, leaving them largely dependent on foreign assistance.
+=====Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID=====
+[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/usaid by DEMOCRACY NOW 13/11/25]
+ “We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.” We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administration’s near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande, the head of global health at USAID during the Biden administration, is featured in the short film Rovina’s Choice, filmed at a refugee camp at the border between Kenya and South Sudan earlier this year.
+=====Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts=====
+[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/6/famine_sudan by DEMOCRACY NOW 6/10/25]
+ Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who just returned from Sudan, says that the famine is man-made.
+=====Fight against tuberculosis stalls in Bangladesh as U.S. cuts aid=====
+[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fight-against-tuberculosis-stalls-in-bangladesh-as-u-s-cuts-aid by Fred de Sam Lazaro 14/8/25 PBS NEWS]
+ Earlier this year, the Trump administration’s defunding of USAID brought an abrupt halt to hundreds of global health programs, including those targeting tuberculosis. The disease kills more people than any other infectious agent worldwide, about 1.25 million in 2023. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Bangladesh on efforts to contain the fallout.
+=====“Millions of Lives at Risk”: USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty and Disease=====
+[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/13/us_aid_cuts_international_impact by DEMOCRACY NOW 13/6/25]
+ NERMEEN SHAIKH: For more on the dismantling of USAID and what it means for people around the world, we’re joined now by two guests. In Oslo, Jan Egeland is with us, with the Norwegian Refugee Council. He’s just returned from a trip to Mozambique. And here in New York, we’re joined by Amanda Klasing, national director of government relations and advocacy with Amnesty International USA, which has just released a report titled “Lives at Risk: Chaotic and Abrupt Cuts to Foreign Aid Put Millions of Lives at Risk.”
+=====U.S. Cuts Aid to Somalia But Continues to Bomb It=====
+[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/11/headlines/us_cuts_aid_to_somalia_but_continues_to_bomb_it by DEMOCRACY NOW 11/7/25]
+ Moazzam Malik: “Many communities, many children, many families are very vulnerable following drought years over the last few years, the loss of livelihoods, the loss of livestock, and they’re in desperate need. And at the same time that they face desperate needs with drought, with climate change impacts, they’re of course suffering now the impact of aid cuts.”
+=====Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts=====
+[https://apnews.com/article/usaid-rohingya-exploitation-trump-budget-cuts-ebd7a05e2f507b810194e71ae6b3c515 by KRISTEN GELINEAU 16/12/25 AP]
+ Ever since the military in her homeland of Myanmar killed her father in 2017, forcing her to flee to neighboring Bangladesh with her mother and little sisters, the school had protected Hasina from the predators who prowl her refugee camp, home to 1.2 million members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority.
+=====The Impact of Foreign Aid Cuts=====
+[https://betterworldcampaign.org/impact-of-foreign-assistance-cuts by BETTER WORLD CAMPAIGN]
+has brought the largest restructuring of U.S. foreign assistance in history, with thousands of UN programs losing funds and others facing drastic reforms. Like most Americans, we know that aid isn’t charity. It saves lives, strengthens democracies and advances America’s security. We hope policymakers will rethink these cuts and recognize foreign assistance for what it is — a smart investment in our future.
+=====USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths=====
+[https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ by Karen Feldscher 20/11/25 HARVARD T.H CHAN]
+ The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande.
+=====‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts=====
+[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/17/trojan-horse-moment-anti-rights-groups-fill-void-us-aid-cuts by Isabel Choat 17/12/25 The Guardian]
+ A new study projects that U.S. funding cuts to global health aid will have a catastrophic effect on pediatric TB, with children in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia likely to experience a significant spike in preventable cases and deaths over the next decade—even by the most conservative estimates—unless funding is restored.
+=====U.S. aid cuts put millions in peril=====
+[https://www.rescue.org/article/us-aid-cuts-put-millions-peril by INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITEE 28/2/25]
+ The Department of State has terminated over 10,000 foreign aid grants and contracts in a devastating blow to global humanitarian efforts. This decision has severely impacted communities worldwide.
+=====US Government fuelling global humanitarian catastrophe: UN experts=====
+[https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/us-government-fuelling-global-humanitarian-catastrophe-un-experts by united Nations 31/7/25]
+ GENEVA – The abrupt suspension of United States of America’s foreign aid has fuelled a global humanitarian catastrophe – made worse by the administration’s failure to publish a review it committed to undertake of USAID contracts and disbursements, UN human rights experts* said today.
+=====The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands=====
+[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands by Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong 5/11/25 THE NEW YORKER]
+ t was January, my final week in the outgoing Administration. In a few days, Donald Trump would be inaugurated as President. I had come to the United States Agency for International Development in early 2022, leaving my surgery practice and public-health research in Boston to lead the agency’s global-health efforts. Now I’d be returning to my previous life.
+=====Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts=====
+[https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipated-deaths-from-usaid-funding-cuts/ by Jillian McKoy 21/3/25 School of Public Health]
+ Over the last two months, the Trump administration’s slashing of US foreign aid and systematic dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have severely disrupted the lives of populations abroad who rely on this funding for disease detection and treatment, nutrition assistance, and other vital public health services.
+=====U.S. Aid Cuts Are Hitting Global Conservation Projects Hard=====
+[https://e360.yale.edu/features/usaid-cuts-conservation by Adam Welz 23/4/25 YaleEnvironment360]
+On February 3, Elon Musk typed a now-notorious post to his social media platform X: “Spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone [sic] to some great parties. Did that instead.”
+=====USAID Cuts Weaken U.S. Influence at the United Nations=====
+[https://www.csis.org/analysis/usaid-cuts-weaken-us-influence-united-nations by Allison Lombardo 19/5/25 CSIS]
+ As part of its stated intention to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and circumscribe U.S. foreign assistance, the Trump administration announced recently that it had terminated at least 5,341 foreign aid projects, including an estimated 211 awards to various UN agencies for implementing development and humanitarian programs around the world. Some U.S. leverage may go with them.
+=====US aid cuts are a soft power surrender to China=====
+[https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/us-aid-cuts-are-soft-power-surrender-china by theinterpreter]
+ China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval underway. It shows that the aid cuts will restore China as the world’s largest bilateral development partner, with the United States ceding larger partner status to China in more than 40 countries.
+=====Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year=====
+[https://ourworldindata.org/us-foreign-aid-saved-millions by Simon van Teutem and Hannah Ritchie 28/9/25 Our World in Data]
+ In total dollars spent, the United States was the world’s largest foreign aid donor in 2023. It gave $62 billion, about the same as the next three largest donors combined: Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The chart below shows the ten largest givers.