Over 14 million people could die from Trump administration cuts to U.S. foreign aid, study finds

The study was published in the prestigious Lancet Journal while business leaders at the United Nations Conference in Spain this week are hoping to enhance the relief sector.

The USAID Agency (USAID) has provided more than 40 percent of global humanitarian financing until Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.

Two weeks later, Trump’s advisor boasted at the time-and the world’s richest man-Ilon Musk was the agency “through wood”.

The co -author of the study, David Rasilla, a researcher at the Barcelona Institute of International Health (ISGLOBAL).

“For many low and medium -income countries, the resulting shock will be comparable in size to a global pandemic or a major armed conflict,” he said in a statement.

When looking at data from 133 countries, the international team estimated the researchers that the United States Agency for International Development had banned 91.8 million deaths in developing countries between 2001 and 2021.

This is more than the estimated number of deaths during World War II, the most struggle of history.

HIV virus, malaria to rise

The researchers also used modeling to record how to reduce funding by 83 percent – the number announced by the US government earlier this year – at death rates.

Expectations found that discounts may lead to more than 14 million deaths that can be avoided by 2030.

This number included more than 4.5 million children under the age of five – or about 700,000 deaths annually.

For comparison, it is estimated that about 10 million soldiers were killed during the First World War.

The programs supported by the United States Agency for International Development have been linked to a 15 % decrease in deaths from all reasons, the researchers decided.

For children under the age of five, the decrease in deaths twice, by 32 percent.

The United States Agency for International Development has been found to be particularly effective in avoiding the prevention of the disease.

The study found that there is 65 percent less than the deaths of HIV/AIDS in countries that receive a high level of support compared to those who have little or non -US financing from the United States Agency for International Development.

Malaria deaths and tropical diseases are cut like.

The co -author of the study, Francisco Soth of the Manahika Health Research Center in Manahika, said he saw on how the American Agency for International Development helped to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.

“The cutting of this funding now not only endangered lives, but also undermines the critical infrastructure that has lasted for construction contracts.”

Recently updated tracking by Modeller Brooke Nichols at Boston University, approximately 108,000 adults and more than 224,000 children have already died as a result of American aid discounts.

This works up to 88 deaths every hour, according to the follower.

“It is time to expand the scope

After the US Agency for International Development was destroyed, many other donors, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom, were followed in the announcement of plans to reduce foreign aid budgets.

“These aid discounts, especially in the European Union, may lead to” additional death in the coming years. ”

But the dark projections are based on the amount of current aid that has pledged, so it can decrease rapidly if the situation changes, as the researchers emphasized.

Dozens of world leaders meet in the Spanish city of Seville this week for the largest assistance conference in a decade.

The United States, however, will not come.

“It is now time to expand a domain, not expansion,” said Rasila.

Before reducing its funding, the United States Agency for International Development represented 0.3 percent of all US Federal spending.

“American citizens contribute about 17 cents per day at the United States Agency for International Development, about $ 64 a year,” said James McCaino of the University of California, Los Angeles.

“I think most people will support the financing of the US Agency for ongoing International Development if they know how effective this small contribution is to provide millions of lives.”