USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths
According to research on Lancet Medical Journal, deep financing deductions for the US International Development Agency and for the dismissal of potential may result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.
President Donald Trump’s administration financed that the USAID and the US Government said that it was part of a wider plan to eliminate waste expenditures worldwide aid programs.
The research was published on Monday, on the same day former US presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush rarely criticized the Trump administration – the singer Bono said goodbye to an emotional video with USAID employees.
Obama described the Trump administration dismantling USAID as a “tremendous mistake”.
In a registered expression, he presented assurance to help and development employees.
“Your business will be important and will be important for future generations,” he said.
Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six -year -old human and development organization created by President John F Kennedy abroad as a peaceful way to encourage US national security by increasing goodwill and prosperity.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio ordered the USAID to be absorbed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from Tuesday.
According to the study, the USAID financing has played an important role in the improvement of global health to low and medium -income countries, especially African countries.
The study estimated that programs financed by the USAID in the last twenty years prevented more than 91 million deaths globally, including 30 million deaths among children.
Projections show that deep financing cuts, which are ongoing with the dismissal of the agency, can lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 4.5 million deaths among children under five years of age.
Washington is the world’s largest donor in the world, with at least 38 percent of all the contributions made by the United Nations. According to government data, last year, $ 61 billion ($ 93 billion) used a little more than half of foreign aid.
“Our estimates show that a surprising number of preventive deaths may occur until 2030, unless the sudden financing interruptions described and applied in the first half of 2025 are reversed.”
The USAID, Trump and the billionaire ally Elon Musk were first and most violently targeted for the interruption of the government, and employees were suddenly locked from systems and offices and terminated with mass e-mail.
Trump claimed that the agency was managed by “Radical Sol Lunatics” and was carried out with “tremendous fraud”. Musk called it “criminal organization.”
Rubio said Trump administration canceled more than 80 percent of all programs in the USAID after a six -week examination.
He said that the remaining 1000 programs will now be managed “more effective” in consultation with the US Department of State and in consultation with the Congress.
With AP
