New vaccines are helping Ghana approach a long-sought goal of ending child deaths from malaria, but aid cutbacks could mean fewer children benefit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/02/world/science-health/malaria-vaccines-ghana-child-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #malaria #vaccines #ghana #us #donaldtrump #republicans #usaid
@rbreich and bad and all as every death is
USAID (2001-2021): Saved 92M lives, incl. 30M kids under 5 (HIV/TB/malaria/polio/nutrition). Post-2025 shutdown: 600K deaths already, 2/3 children. Infographic attached. Sources: Lancet study, Brooke Nichols models. #GlobalHealth #USAID #PublicHealth
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
Your policial system is responsible for this.
The U.S. is…
withdrawing from the UN program to protect women and children from sexual violence during wars
slashing its contributions to peacekeeping and food aid
refusing to participate in a global review of its human rights practices https://theconversation.com/us-turns-its-back-on-global-efforts-for-women-and-children-terrorized-by-violence-and-conflict-273177
@TheConversationUS USAID (2001-2021): Saved 92M lives, incl. 30M kids under 5 (HIV/TB/malaria/polio/nutrition). Post-2025 shutdown: 600K deaths already, 2/3 children. Infographic attached. Sources: Lancet study, Brooke Nichols models. #GlobalHealth #USAID #PublicHealth
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/
Ben Werdmuller
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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
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
Alex Akselrod
and 4 others
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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
Trump has now spent 317 days ending the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
Every day Trump cowers to Putin instead of helping Ukraine, more Ukrainians die.
Trump is not stopping the killing. He is the cause of the killing.
@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.
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
"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
#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://flipboard.com/@POZ2020
#WorldAIDSDay #Health #Medicine #Healthcare #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump #USAID #USPolitics
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio gave orders leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, most of them children. These three "leaders" killed USAID, and in the process ordered those deaths.
A crime against humanity, IMO.
@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
Dan Phiffer
and 1 other
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"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