US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the official end of USAID, eliminating the world’s largest humanitarian aid agency just days after a landmark study warned the closure would cause 2.4 million preventable deaths every year.
The study published 30 June in The Lancet found USAID-supported programs saved 92 million lives in low- and middle-income countries over the past two decades, including 30.4 million children under the age of five. Without this support, researchers project 14 million additional premature deaths by 2030 – as a result of the closure of the agency founded in 1961.
Read the full story at Health Policy Watch.
Source : Health Policy Watch
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