There has been a spike this year in malaria fatalities in Cameroon that local health officials attribute to foreign aid cuts by the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/world/science-health/babies-deaths-us-malaria-aid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #us #aid #cameroon #health #malaria #children #africa
The Gates Foundation will give $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, philanthropist Bill Gates announced Monday as he urged governments to reverse global cuts to health funding. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/world/science-health/bill-gates-global-disease-governments/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #aids #tuberculosis #malaria #billgates
Bill Gates urges Japan to continue its global health leadership by investing in international partnerships, arguing that such commitments will save millions of lives, strengthen global security and drive economic growth. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/21/japan/world-life-sciences-need-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #billgates #thegatesfoundation #tuberculosis #malaria #hiv #health #medicine #vaccinations #covid19
"One of the most dangerous things a woman can do in a poor country is get pregnant. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that #American assistance has prevented some 34,000 maternal deaths per year around the world. That suggests that ending such aid may lead #women to perish in pregnancy approximately once every 15 minutes."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html
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"a woman named Bendu Kiadu is mourning her child Gbessey, who was just 1 year old.
Gbessey caught #malaria in March. In normal times, a community health worker would have administered simple medicines for malaria... But the closing of #USAID led to the collapse of some supply chains, so #health workers had no malaria medicine to offer Gbessey.
...The next day, Gbessey died.
“Our #children are dying because of a lack of medicine,” Kiadu told me."
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