Health Policy Watch news story
One year ago on 20 January, the Trump administration exploded the global health sector by immediately “pausing” all aid for 90 days – and dispensing with 83% of US Agency for International Development (USAID) projects six weeks later.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization Director General, described the US actions as the “greatest disruption to global health finance in memory”, “sowing chaos”, threatening to roll back decades of progress on infectious and neglected diseases.
To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour.
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Source : Health Policy Watch
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