Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USAID #Hunger #USPolitics #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #Kenya

When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-kenya-humanitarian-aid-starvation-families-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Kenya #Africa #USAID #Family #Children #Trump #MarcioRubio #Politics

Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USAID #Hunger #USPolitics #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #Kenya

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
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Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #PublicHealth #USAID #SouthSudan

@randahl
With all due respect to Ukrainans✊ suffering and dying (for us europeans too).
Yes, but allow me to point out, it's sadly "only" the more obvious deaths he (rather say #project2025 ) is causing (/not stopping).
Not in the deathcount (nationally/globally) included are those by cuts in health- and science-programs. #Medicaid #Medicare #USAID #vaccine #climate #education #WHO .....
The number of deaths will be in the hundreds of thousands, if not way more globally.

"The cuts would cost countless lives... #Trump officials were told repeatedly. The team of aides pressed on...

By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. Created in 1961 to foster global stability and help advance American interests... the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction."
- @ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#USAID #DOGE #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #GOP #Republicans #USPol #Politics #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
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Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #PublicHealth #USAID #SouthSudan

Almost 250.000 more children are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024, according to the Gates foundation. According to its report, reductions in aid including the Trump administration’s cutting and reorganizing of the U.S. Agency for International Development are partly to blame. “I believe that was a gigantic mistake, and that’s partly why we’ve had the turmoil and increase in deaths this year,” Gates told the WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/health/for-first-time-in-decades-child-deaths-will-rise-this-year-92c67b51?st=dVhu6e&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #giftarticle #USAID #Musk #Trump

Today is World AIDS Day, and for the first time since its inception in 1988, the U.S. government will not be commemorating it. Trent Straube from
POZ Magazine writes about the stats on HIV and AIDS, and the impact of the Trump administration. "Although new HIV rates have declined overall, progress is imperiled due to funding cuts and a hostile administration in the White House," writes Straube.

https://flip.it/LTvKga

https://flipboard.com/@POZ2020

#WorldAIDSDay #Health #Medicine #Healthcare #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump #USAID #USPolitics

@dangillmor I don't think we can convince #USAID opponents of the necessity of this programme with statements such as ‘it's a crime’

I would focus on two points:
1. USAID is a small amount of money for the United States, which has given the American state soft power, stopped the spread of all kinds of diseases (which could have reached the United States) and made the world a better place. China and Russia, which are acting against the United States, could take the place of USAID

"Although DOGE is gone, its malign legacy endures. Arguably DOGE’s biggest 'achievement' was shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development. And the dismantling of USAID has left a legacy of death. According to one recent study, closing the agency 'has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.'”

~ Paul Krugman

#DOGE #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-was-a-harbinger-of-trumps-assault

"Although DOGE is gone, its malign legacy endures. Arguably DOGE’s biggest 'achievement' was shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development. And the dismantling of USAID has left a legacy of death. According to one recent study, closing the agency 'has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.'”

~ Paul Krugman

#DOGE #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-was-a-harbinger-of-trumps-assault

“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…

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“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…

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"add the 600,000 who died this year as a direct result of Elon Musk DOGE-ing USAID, and tack on the deaths from ICE Gestapo raids, the pregnancy-related deaths that are a direct consequence of Trump’s embrace of Dobbs,"

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #prices #groceries #party #MaraLago #ballroom #EconomicElites #champagne #BeefFilet #truffles #TrumpChocolateCake #USAID #DOGE #ElonMusk #abortion #healthcare #ICE
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