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[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] | [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. | 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. | |||