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“[M]illions across Africa have seen their lives upended after the U.S. aid cuts.” In Liberia’s Bong county, “medicine shelves in health clinics are almost empty. The USAID-funded ambulance cannot function because there is no money for fuel. Hospitals are running out of hand sanitizer and gloves. Training for medical staff has stopped, and community health workers have not been paid in months.”
AP, 07/08/25
“A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.”
NYT, 06/25/2025
“Trump's cuts have restricted the availability of drugs that millions of Africans have taken to prevent infection,” and “now, some of those who've lost access to the preventative medication because of U.S. cutbacks are already testing positive, according to 10 patients, health officials and activists.”
Reuters, 06/20/25
“U.S. aid cuts leave Rohingya in Bangladesh vulnerable to Hepatitis C.”
Nikkei, 06/18/25
“President Donald Trump's gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development has put TB testing and tracing on hold in Pakistan and Nigeria, stalled vital research in South Africa and left TB survivors lacking support in India.” Funding cuts have put 39 clinical research sites and at least 20 TB trials and 24 HIV trials are at risk.
Context, 6/3/25
In Nigeria, over 13,200 children who were receiving support to return to school are now left without help, making their future uncertain. In Kenya, the U.S. previously funded over a quarter of the country's development aid. Withdrawal of this funding threatens critical sectors like education and health care, especially HIV treatment for 1.4 million people. Experts suggest that these essential medication supplies may only last another three to six months.
DW, 05/28/2025
The foreign aid freeze has disrupted plans to roll out Lenacapivir—a highly anticipated new drug that “protects patients against HIV infection through a single shot given every six months”—to more than 2 million people over the next three years. The program will likely lose significant funding because “the drug would fall under the category of preventative services that the State department’s waiver says should no longer be funded.”
The Guardian, 05/24/2025
DW reports on the impacts of the Trump administration's USAID cuts on healthcare in Africa, where as many as "4 million additional people could now die from treatable diseases in Africa as a result.”
DW, 05/11/2025
In Liberia, "hospitals and clinics across the country are bracing for potential shortages of essential medications” as a result of USAID funded program known as the Fixed Amount Reimbursement Agreement. “The cuts present more challenges to security and social cohesion for the government at a time when poverty is rising in rural areas according to Cllr. Tiawan Gongloe, a veteran human rights lawyer and rival presidential candidate in the 2023 election.”
FrontPage Africa, 05/08/2025
In Mali, “[a]ll 33 rural health centers lost a USAID-funded programme that had been providing free consultations and medications to pregnant mothers and children under-five.”
Context, 04/29/2025
U.S. aid cuts are “disrupting efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases almost as much as the COVID-19 pandemic did, the United Nations said on Thursday.” Along with outbreaks of infectious diseases like measles and yellow fever, vaccines “were significantly affected in nearly half of countries at the start of April due to the funding cuts.” These cuts also “reduced vaccine supplies and hampered disease surveillance.”
Reuters, 04/24/25
For CBS News Sunday Morning, Ted Koppel reports on the “dangers posed by cuts to U.S. foreign aid,” including the end of funding for a children's clinic in Nigeria.
CBS News, 4/20/2025
In Nigeria and other parts of West Africa, the rainy season is rapidly approaching, and with rain comes deadly malaria-carrying mosquitoes. A clinic that “once served 300 people a day in the conflict-hit Borno state have abruptly shut down.” The defunding of USAID is “unravelling health care systems across Africa that were built from a complicated web of national health ministries, the private sector, nonprofits and foreign aid.” This endangers “the poorest of the poor, out in remote areas of Nigeria and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, they're the ones who will be cut off.”
France24, 04/15/25
In Syria, a program that “provided wheelchairs, walkers, and prosthetics to those who lost their limbs during the country’s civil war” was shuttered when the organization running it was forced to close.
Devex, 04/08/2025
In Kenya, “roughly 41,500 healthcare and community health workers funded by PEPFAR were sent home or stopped work after the initial freeze, and only about 11,000 had returned to work by last week.” Children in Kenya “who used to receive a three-month supply of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to contain the virus now count their medication in days. Outreach workers, suddenly unemployed, are turning back to sex work in desperation.”
The Washington Post, 04/05/2025
The USAID cuts included $13 million in grants for “Israeli institutions, largely targeting agricultural, scientific and medical research programs.” These cuts mostly impacted “Israeli universities and research institutions. A large majority of the grants were focused on agricultural research projects such as crop resilience and water issues. Others were focused on subjects like desalination, wastewater treatment and health-care issues such as combating bird flu.”
Jewish Insider, 03/31/2025
In Kenya, “Despite a temporary waiver that permits the distribution of [HIV programming] commodities for 60 days during the re-evaluation process, the situation remains precarious, with stock levels barely sufficient to carry the program through to November 2025.”
Devex, 03/26/2025
For Sudanese refugees in Chad, the U.S. foreign aid cuts, “have reduced already razor-thin margins for lifesaving resources like food and water, and other U.S. government-funded programs including mental health counseling and education.”
New York Times, 03/18/2025
The dismantling of USAID has given states like China room to fill the donation gap in Southeast Asia. Thailand, for example, is experiencing closures of health clinics like the Mae Tao Clinic, “which provides free medical care to refugees from neighboring Myanmar. With American support halted, the facility cannot buy such medical equipment as incubators for premature babies. It is also struggling to provide technical training to young doctors from Thailand and elsewhere.”
Nikkei Asia, 03/18/2025
“31 of 41 of the International Rescue Committee’s stabilization centers — “in-patient centers for the most severely malnourished children — received termination notices from the Trump administration. Some of those terminations have since been rescinded, but a lack of payment from the U.S. government has hobbled the ability for programs to resume normal operations. Some centers are shuttered, others are severely understaffed and others are running out of specialized food.”
NPR, 03/10/2025
“[T]here have been no confirmed payments to any partners in the Middle East” to fund aid programs intended to combat the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. A program to provide life-saving nutrition treatment has been “significantly scaled down,” organizations that have already purchased medical supplies cannot afford to move them into Gaza, and field hospitals are only able to provide basic services with limited staff.”
AP, 03/07/2025
A USAID agency official estimated that the pause in foreign aid and delays in approving lifesaving assistance will result in “18 million additional cases of malaria per year,” “200,000 children paralyzed with polio annually,” “one million children not treated for severe acute malnutrition,” and “more than 28,000 new cases of such infectious diseases as Ebola and Marburg every year.”
New York Times, 03/03/2025
In Senegal, the biggest malaria project that “distributed bed nets and medication to tens of thousands of people” was shut down. The project also provided “maternal and child health and nutrition services.”
AP, 03/01/2025
Programs to prevent the spread of tuberculosis were canceled in Pakistan, India, and 22 other countries. The programs had previously received waivers to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Devex, 02/28/2025
“A $90 million contract … for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would have protected 53 million people” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
In Yemen, a project “that supported community health workers’ efforts to go door-to-door seeking malnourished children” has been canceled. One in five children in Yemen are critically underweight due to the civil war.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A project in Nigeria providing 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with treatment for severe and acute malnutrition” has been canceled. “The termination means 77 health facilities have completely stopped treating children with severe acute malnutrition, putting 60,000 children under the age of 5 at immediate risk of death.”
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A program to protect more than 20 million people in 10 countries in Africa from malaria has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A project providing H.I.V. and tuberculosis treatment to 46,000 people in Uganda” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“While the Trump administration issued a waiver to allow USAID to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda last month, partner organizations were not promptly paid for their work, and USAID’s own efforts were sharply curtailed compared to past efforts to fight Ebola outbreaks.” A USAID team of 60 staffers working on disease response was cut to six staffers.
The Washington Post, 02/26/2025
Amref Health Africa—which put 692 staff on unpaid leave and suspended 20 programs due to the aid freeze—has “since received waivers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue some work covering five programs largely related to HIV in Tanzania and Kenya.” The new waivers are temporary while the U.S. government completes a 90-day review of development and humanitarian aid programs.
Devex, 02/21/2025
In Uganda, at least one health center outside Masaka is running low on HIV testing kits. The center is now only testing people they consider most at risk of being infected, turning away others who might have HIV.
Devex, 02/20/2025
The Family Planning Association of Malawi had to recall staff in the field, preventing contact with an estimated 13,000 to 14,000 people over the next three months. The Association provides services beyond family planning, including cervical cancer screening and treatment.
Devex, 02/13/2025
Clinical trials for two experimental HIV vaccines, developed by a consortium of researchers from eight African countries with enrolled volunteers from South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda have been halted. The consortium does not know how it will continue to pay for cold storage of the vaccines.
The Telegraph, 02/12/2025
Antimalarial campaigns, which must be conducted before the rainy season to be effective, have been postponed. “In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children.” 3.2 million Ugandans will be at risk. In Kenya, 1.45 million people will be left unprotected. In Ethiopia, 2.6 million people won’t receive nets.
Devex, 02/11/2025; Global Health Council, 02/05/2025; The New York Times, 02/01/2025
The loss of U.S. programs for women and girls in South Asia will result in 1,200 additional maternal deaths and 109,000 more unintended pregnancies between 2025 and 2028. The UN Population Fund had to lay off more than 1,700 female health workers, mostly midwives, in Afghanistan.
Devex, 02/06/2025
Surveillance for drug-resistant tuberculosis worldwide has been halted, even as the United States navigates a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas.
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
“Medical supplies, including drugs to stop hemorrhages in pregnant women and rehydration salts that treat life-threatening diarrhea in toddlers, cannot reach villages in Zambia because the trucking companies transporting them were paid through a suspended supply project of USAID.”
AP, 02/03/2025; ProPublica, 01/31/2025
More than 2.4 million anti-malaria bed nets are stuck in production facilities in Asia, rather than being put to use in sub-Saharan Africa. Contracts for eight million more nets are also on hold.
The New York Times, 02/01/2025
Monitoring of avian flu has been suspended, despite its spread to 49 countries, including the United States. One American has already been killed by the flu on home soil.
Congressional Letter to USAID, 01/31/2025
15 Amref Health Africa programs remain suspended. “[I]n Malawi, 108,443 babies and children will go without full immunizations if funding doesn’t resume, and 100,000 women will go without nutrition-related counseling, support, and antenatal care visits…In Kenya, the organization needs funding to provide nutrition support for 175,995 children.”
Devex, 02/21/2025
“An organization providing support for those affected by HIV/AIDS across Africa only received a limited waiver to continue doing so, meaning children living with an HIV-positive parent no longer being regularly tested for the virus.”
Devex, 02/17/2025
In Afghanistan, 191 health clinics, which are the sole source of lifesaving maternal healthcare in rural areas, will be closed.” Over 200 clinic staffers, many of whom are female health workers, were suspended.
Devex, 02/13/2025; Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
In Kenya, a nonprofit implementing partner that manages the procurement, storage, and distribution of HIV medicines was unable to continue its work despite receiving a waiver to resume “life-saving” work because USAID’s payment systems were down.
Devex, 02/12/2025
USAID’s Global Health Supply Chain Program has been forced to leave $150 million of health products in warehouses, with another $88.5 million of supplies stuck in transit. “Not delivering those commodities on time… could result in more than half a million deaths from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unmet reproductive health needs — including 215,000 pediatric deaths.”
Devex, 02/12/2025
“$150 million in health products are stranded in warehouses, with $88.5 million in transit at risk of expiring, being damaged, or stolen… if those medical products are not delivered, as many as 566,000 people — including 215,000 children — could die from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unmet reproductive health needs.”
Devex, 02/11/2025
“In Bangladesh, a cholera treatment trial has been abandoned, leaving patients with no plan for next steps.”
The New York Times, 02/09/2025
In Gaza, tens of millions of dollars earmarked for water infrastructure, mobile hospital units and psychological support programs have been suspended.
The New York Times, 02/07/2025
In Gaza, the International Medical Corps “may no longer be able to sustain an emergency department that treats up to 200 patients a day, an outpatient department that serves up to 2,000 people a day and a childbirth unit that delivers roughly 20 babies a day.”
The New York Times, 02/07/2025
“A malaria vaccine study in Britain has stranded volunteers who had received doses but now lack medical follow-ups for potential complications.” A clinical trial for a malaria treatment in children in Mozambique was halted.
The New York Times, 02/09/2025; The New York Times, 02/06/2025
In Pakistan, “62 health facilities located amid refugee villages will lose access to lifesaving maternal healthcare.”
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
10 US-funded studies focused on tuberculosis, nutrition, fungal infection surveillance, and the risk of viral spillover from animals to human have been paused.
Science, 02/05/2025
600,000 people in civil-war torn Sudan are at “grave risk of catching and spreading” cholera, measles, and malaria as a result of the freeze.
AP, 02/03/2025
Efforts to combat a deadly outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania have been suspended.
Congressional Letter to USAID, 01/31/2025
PEPFAR will be unable to support cervical cancer screening, diagnoses, and treatment services for women living with HIV. Approximately 7,164 women will not be screened and approximately 363 diagnoses of cervical cancer or precancerous lesions will be missed every day.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
In Ivory Coast, “approximately 516 health care facilities have been forced to” close.
New York Times, 03/08/2025
In Uganda, contact tracing efforts and surveillance for the Ebola outbreak have been “severely hindered without U.S. assistance.” The termination of $1.6 million in grants has made it difficult for the Ugandan government to procure “sufficient laboratory supplies, diagnostic equipment and protective gear for medical workers and people tracing contacts.”
New York Times, 03/06/2025
The International Rescue Committee in South Sudan shut down a project that provided access to “health care and nutrition services to more than 115,000 people.”
AP, 03/01/2025
Funding to support dozens of medical clinics in Sudan providing IVs, oxygen, and emergency feeding treatments to infants and children has been terminated. Without constant care, these children will die within 4-8 hours. The program had previously received a waiver to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Devex, 02/28/2025
Four of five U.S. contracts for Ebola-related work in Uganda have been canceled. “The contracts funded Ebola screening at airports and protective equipment for health workers, and helped prevent transmission by survivors of the disease.”
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“All of the operating costs and 10 percent of the drug budget of the Global Drug Facility, the main supply channel for tuberculosis medications, which last year provided tuberculosis treatment to nearly three million people, including 300,000 children” have been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“Pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal” have been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
20 civil relief groups providing healthcare (including HIV/AIDS treatment and testing) to nearly 140,000 refugees in camps along the Thai-Myanmar border are at risk of being suspended. Patients in need of treatment are being turned away.
The New York Times, 01/31/2025; Radio Free Asia, 01/29/2025
“The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.”
Washington Post, 06/29/25
“In Mozambique, the health system is overwhelmingly built on US money. When the Trump administration instantly pulled much of this funding without warning, disease and death spread. Spotlight and GroundUp visited one of the worst-affected regions to describe the human toll.” “Interviews with grieving caregivers, health workers and government officials across these settlements all converged on one clear and near-universal conclusion: the funding cuts have led to the deaths of children.”
Spotlight, 06/23/25
“A State Department official said Pepfar continued to support ‘lifesaving HIV testing, care and treatment’ including for orphans and vulnerable children, but that all other services are currently being reviewed. But that’s not how people working on the ground see things playing out.” “The US has withheld money previously promised to IDF Kenya for services including medication counselling and psychological support since Trump took office, and the facility has already recorded deaths of children who were no longer able to access medication.”
The Independent, 6/17/25
A Washington Post analysis found that “there is no dispute that people have died because the Trump administration abruptly suspended foreign aid. One might quibble over whether tens of thousands — or hundreds of thousands — have died. But you can’t call it a lie.”
Washington Post, 05/28/25
In Malawi, cases of mpox are rising as U.S. aid cuts have exacerbated vaccine shortages and severely depleted access to HIV medication. “Health officials had reported that patients who had been on ART (antiretroviral therapy) had been forced to stop taking their medication because of the drug shortages. HIV can worsen the risk and severity of mpox, while effective HIV treatment can help manage the risk.”
The Guardian, 05/26/2025
In India, dozens of community-led health organizations have lost funding, critically impacting the efficacy of “TB champions” who work to “raise awareness, reduce stigma and support patients in a country with the highest number of [tuberculosis] infections in the world.” Without these groups, “public health experts in India are warning of a spike in infections and deaths from tuberculosis.” Across the globe, a “Stop TB Partnership study showed that USAID's funding cuts could lead to as much as a 36% rise in cases and a 68% jump in deaths to 2.24 million by 2030 in 26 high burden countries.”
Deccan Herald, 05/13/2025
U.S. funding cuts have forced the large-scale suspension of outreach and harm reduction programs and clinics that distribute “opioid agonist maintenance therapy (OAMT), also known as medically assisted treatment” meant “to alleviate withdrawal symptoms and reduce injecting drug use, which in turn lowers the risk of acquiring HIV.” Previously, PEPFAR “supported OAMT to 27,000 people in seven countries (India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda). In many cases these were and are the only services available. They also supported harm reduction programmes in Mozambique, Myanmar and Kazakhstan.”
UNAIDS, 05/05/2025
According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in Somalia, “the closure of maternal and child health clinics and a therapeutic feeding center in Baidoa, cut off monthly care to hundreds of malnourished children. MSF nutrition programs in Baidoa have reported an increase in severe acute malnutrition admissions since the funding cuts. The MSF-supported Bay Regional Hospital has received patients traveling as far as 120 miles for care due to facility closures elsewhere.”
Medecins Sans Frontieres, 04/24/25
Yale University lost support for a program to train “epidemiologists and laboratory specialists to monitor malaria, dengue, antimicrobial resistance and vaccine efficacy” in Chad, which would have empowered the country to “identify and respond to public health threats without waiting for external help.” Yale also lost a $15 million award for health education initiatives in Liberia where the foreign aid freeze had already “shuttered the country’s only high-fidelity simulation facility used for life-saving clinical education.”
Yale Daily News, 04/21/25
According to a “What’s In” and “What’s Out” list disseminated by USAID leadership, “awards with a focus on ‘broad and stand-alone behavior change, health systems strengthening, knowledge management, broad research, and technical assistance (not directly tied to lifesaving service delivery activities)’ will be cut from future foreign aid in the health sector.
Devex, 04/17/25
In South Sudan, eight people, including five children, “died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera,” following the U.S. foreign aid cuts, which caused local health services to close. “Three of the children were under the age of 5.”
Reuters, 04/09/2025
In northeast Nigeria, a young boy with sickle cell disease died when his local health clinic—funded by USAID—was closed due to the stop-work order and he was unable to receive medical treatment.
NPR, 05/28/2025
In Haiti, a non-profit organization caring for orphans with HIV/AIDS will run out of medical supplies at the end of July. At a nearby hospital, more than 550 patients living with HIV/AIDS will lose access to medication in two months. “Experts say Haiti could see a rise in HIV infections because medications are dwindling at a time that gang violence and poverty are surging.”
Africa News, 05/25/2025
In South Africa, viral load testing for people living with HIV who are on anti-retroviral treatments “fell by up to 21% among key groups in the last two months, which four HIV experts said appeared to be due to the loss of U.S. funding.” “With less testing, fewer people who may transmit the virus will be identified. Missing a test can also indicate that a patient has dropped out of the system and may be missing treatment.”
Reuters, 05/14/2025
The UN Population Fund has had to curtail its support for midwifery, and “will only be able to fund 47 per cent of the 3,521 midwives it had planned to support in 2025.” “In Afghanistan alone, loss of support for 409 midwives will cut access to skilled care for an estimated half a million women.”
UNFPA, 05/05/2025
VIDEO: How USAID cuts are harming maternal health care in Pakistan.
DW, 5/3/25
In South Sudan, “eight people died of cholera [in April] trying to find medical treatment after U.S.-funded clinics in Jonglei State were shuttered.”
The New Humanitarian, 04/29/2025
In Nigeria, a Mercy Corps program to support health facilities that “provide lifesaving nutrition support to over 55,000 children under the age of 5 and 11,500 pregnant women” was terminated without warning.
OPB, 04/25/2025
In Nepal, the most at-risk people for HIV “have been deprived of pre-exposure prophylaxis since the USAID-funded programmes were suspended in the last week of January.” Previously “over 1,500 at-risk people from 26 high-risk districts were receiving medication through the USAID’s programme,” “including pregnant women whose husbands are HIV positive.”
Asian News Network, 04/24/25
At one clinic in Zambia, over 6,400 HIV positive patients have lost their access to healthcare services and medications due to canceled contracts and staffing cuts from the review and cancellation of U.S. foreign assistance.
NPR, 04/18/2025
Malaria’s progress is at risk because of the foreign aid cuts. In Africa, “stocks of rapid diagnostic tests and medicines have reached critically low levels.” These cuts also “threaten to undermine critical investments in scientific innovation, including in new and improved preventive, diagnostic and treatment interventions as well as in new tools to address drug and insecticide resistance.”
World Health Organization, 04/11/25
“The Trump administration has notified the World Food Program and other partners that it has terminated some of the last remaining lifesaving humanitarian programs across the Middle East,” according to two AP sources.
AP, 04/07/2025
A project providing “drugs and other medical supplies, health care, treatment of malnutrition programming, and water and sanitation for 115,000 displaced or affected by the conflict in northern Ethiopia” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A program managed by The President’s Malaria Initiative, which conducted mosquito control in 21 countries and protected 12.5 million people last year, has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A project providing H.I.V. and tuberculosis treatment to 46,000 people in Uganda” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
The Demographic and Health Surveys program—which were “the only sources of information in many countries about maternal and child health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and H.I.V. infections, among many other health indicators”—has been terminated.
The New York Times, 02/26/2025
Services will be suspended for 679,936 pregnant women receiving antiretroviral treatments to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission to their children.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
In Afghanistan, the foreign aid freeze has caused many health clinics that specialize in pregnancy to close. It is estimated that “over 200 clinics in Afghanistan closed as a result of American funding cuts” which threatens “the most vulnerable — women, children, the elderly and displaced populations.” Around “200 more facilities would shut down by June, impacting around 2.4 million people.”
NPR, 03/31/2025
“In Afar, [Ethiopia] a region prone to recurrent drought and floods, only 7 of the 30 mobile health and nutrition units supported by UNICEF are currently in operation, a direct result of the global funding crisis.”
Forbes, 03/27/2025
In Kenya, “an indoor residual spraying campaign [to combat malaria] that was scheduled for February and March was suspended” and health systems faced challenge in accessing of over eight months of test kits and first-line medicines.
Devex, 03/26/2025
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, an organization providing “treatment for 350,000 HIV patients—including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women—was thrown into disarray” after USAID abruptly terminated its programs. The organization may have been erroneously swept up in claims by DOGE and Elon Musk about condoms bound for the Gaza Strip. The organization’s work includes projects in the province of Gaza, Mozambique.
Fortune, 03/22/2025
“Due to the US funding freeze, PrEP services (except for pregnant and lactating women) have been completely halted [in Haiti], along with communication and community engagement strategies.” Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is “available for the next months, but sustainability remains uncertain due to unpaid staff salaries and lack of operational support. In addition, 35,000 patients will likely be impacted as access is provided to them through USAID-financed sites.”
UNAIDS, 3/13/25
In Nairobi, Kenya, the X-ray machine used to diagnose tuberculosis at the Mathare North Health Center—which serves some of Nairobi’s poorest population—is no longer running. The personnel trained to operate it were supported by USAID grants and are unable to continue working.
The New York Times, 02/21/2025
“A collection of small organizations in Sudan…have had to shut down a water and sanitation program that previously was reaching 1.6 million displaced by conflict.”
Devex, 02/17/2025
Ten health clinics offering free care to displaced persons in northern Syria have closed. Doctors of the World, which runs several clinics in northern Syria, has cut its daily consultations down from 5,000 to 500.
AP, 02/13/2025
A 71-year-old woman died after her oxygen supply was cut off and she was unable to return to a USAID-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The IRC has had to close seven of its nine hospitals supporting 80,000 people along the Myanmar border.
The Telegraph, 02/11/2025
“In South Africa, researchers were forced to shut down an H.I.V. prevention trial, leaving women with experimental implants inside their bodies and without ongoing medical oversight.”
The New York Times, 02/09/2025
“In Uganda, children enrolled in a tuberculosis treatment trial were cut off from potentially lifesaving medication.” Trials for youth in Peru and South Africa were also shuttered.
The New York Times, 02/09/2025; The New York Times, 02/06/2025
“In Nepal, a U.S.-based nonprofit named the La Isla Network put on hold its work on chronic kidney disease, a deadly condition believed to be linked to heat stress and dehydration that has emerged as a threat to manual laborers in hot countries.”
Science, 02/05/2025
In Turkey, “11 service units providing maternal healthcare will be forced to close, leaving 28,900 people without access to care.”
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
In Myanmar, delivery of malaria drugs and rapid tests have been frozen. The aid freeze also devastated local health organizations, leaving no workers left to distribute the supplies even if they arrive.
The New York Times, 02/01/2025
The United States is not participating in or supporting the response to an outbreak of Ebola in Kampala, Uganda – a city of 1.9 million with a large international airport.
Congressional Letter to USAID, 01/31/2025
Every day, 222,333 people (including 7,445 children under the age of 15) will lose access to antiretroviral treatments for HIV/AIDS supplied by PEPFAR.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
“Smart4TB, the main research consortium working on prevention, diagnostics and treatment for tuberculosis” has been shuttered.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A refugee from Myanmar died two weeks after being taken off USAID-funded dialysis. The International Rescue Committee has also been forced to withdraw from a healthcare facility in the country and has yet to be granted a waiver to continue operating.
The Guardian, 02/25/2025
1,471 infants will acquire new HIV infections every day.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
“Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal.”
Reuters, 06/30/25
“Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has warned that his foundation will not plug gaps left by rich nations’ cuts to global vaccination funding, on the eve of a crucial pledging event.”
FT, 06/24/2025
“Project Hope in Namibia, which linked children in rural communities with HIV treatment and prevention, is another programme to have its [orphans and vulnerable children] funding under Pepfar withheld since January.” “Project Hope in Namibia says its plan to make sure its services could be maintained by the local government by 2028 had been scuppered by the programmes abrupt ending, however. The process of transferring responsibility over including training up local staff will now be a lot harder, achieving exactly the opposite of this goal.”
The Independent, 6/17/25
“Contraceptives that could help prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies in some of the world’s poorest countries are stuck in warehouses because of U.S. aid cuts and could be destroyed, two aid industry sources and one former government official said.”
Reuters, 06/05/25
Nicholas Kristof: “Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?”
NYT, 05/31/25
“Two U.S.-funded programs in Gaza were also terminated, which included a $275,000 United Nations Office for Project Services, or UNOPS, program to move aid across the border, as well as a $12 million program, implemented by a nongovernmental organization, to provide clean drinking water and medical care — supporting Gaza’s decimated health systems.”
Devex, 04/08/2025
The foreign aid freeze has “[cut] nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception.” American funding provided “contraceptive devices and the medical services to deliver them to more than 47 million women and couples, which is estimated to have averted 17.1 million unintended pregnancies and 5.2 million unsafe abortions.” This policy change is predicted to have tremendous consequences, “including more maternal deaths and an overall increase in poverty.”
New York Times, 04/01/2025
The foreign aid freeze is projected to terminate funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, an international organization providing vaccines to children. “The loss of U.S. funds will set back the organization’s ability to continue to provide its basic range of services — such as immunization for measles and polio — to a growing population of children in the poorest countries, let alone expand to include new vaccines. By Gavi’s own estimate, the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.”
New York Times, 03/26/2025
According to the United Nations AIDS Agency, “there could be 2,000 new HIV infections every day globally due to USAID cuts.” Without the restoration or replacement of funding, “there will be, in the next four years, an additional 6.3 million AIDs-deaths.”
Reuters, 03/24/2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has “already scaled back the ambition of the health emergencies two-year budget from $1.2 billion to $872 million” because of the loss of U.S. funding. Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO deputy director-general, says that to cut back spending to fit the new budget, tough decisions are ahead. “The question is, what do you want to stop doing? You want to stop doing Ebola? You want to stop doing emergency medical teams responding to major disasters in the world? Would you like to stop intelligence gathering so that we know what the next epidemic or pandemic will be?”
Devex, 03/18/2025
The International Organization for Migration is “unable to provide healthcare and cash assistance to 925 Rohingya refugees” living as refugees in Indonesia. These refugees are entirely dependent on cash assistance because, as refugees, they are not allowed to work.
Reuters, 03/06/2025
In Ethiopia, the Ministry of Health was “forced to terminate the contract of 5,000 workers across the country focused on HIV and malaria prevention, vaccinations and helping vulnerable women deal with the trauma of war.”
AP, 03/01/2025
In Bangladesh, after an NGO was forced to shut down maternal health services at the world’s largest refugee camp, only 40-50% of pregnant women there now make it to a hospital bed to give birth. Previously, the figure was 95%.
CBC, 03/08/2025
“[I]n Lesotho, Eswatini, and Tanzania, a program supporting more than 350,000 people on HIV treatment — including 10,000 children and 10,000 HIV-positive pregnant mothers — was terminated.” The program had previously received a waiver to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Devex, 02/28/2025
“A $131 million grant to UNICEF’s polio immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A contract to manage and distribute $34 million worth of medical supplies in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthlong H.I.V. treatments, 750,000 H.I.V. tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 antimalaria bed nets” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A project in six West African countries providing “more than 35 million people with the medicine to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
Global Health
“[M]illions across Africa have seen their lives upended after the U.S. aid cuts.” In Liberia’s Bong county, “medicine shelves in health clinics are almost empty. The USAID-funded ambulance cannot function because there is no money for fuel. Hospitals are running out of hand sanitizer and gloves. Training for medical staff has stopped, and community health workers have not been paid in months.”
AP, 07/08/25
“A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.”
NYT, 06/25/2025
“Trump's cuts have restricted the availability of drugs that millions of Africans have taken to prevent infection,” and “now, some of those who've lost access to the preventative medication because of U.S. cutbacks are already testing positive, according to 10 patients, health officials and activists.”
Reuters, 06/20/25
“U.S. aid cuts leave Rohingya in Bangladesh vulnerable to Hepatitis C.”
Nikkei, 06/18/25
“President Donald Trump's gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development has put TB testing and tracing on hold in Pakistan and Nigeria, stalled vital research in South Africa and left TB survivors lacking support in India.” Funding cuts have put 39 clinical research sites and at least 20 TB trials and 24 HIV trials are at risk.
Context, 6/3/25
In Nigeria, over 13,200 children who were receiving support to return to school are now left without help, making their future uncertain. In Kenya, the U.S. previously funded over a quarter of the country's development aid. Withdrawal of this funding threatens critical sectors like education and health care, especially HIV treatment for 1.4 million people. Experts suggest that these essential medication supplies may only last another three to six months.
DW, 05/28/2025
The foreign aid freeze has disrupted plans to roll out Lenacapivir—a highly anticipated new drug that “protects patients against HIV infection through a single shot given every six months”—to more than 2 million people over the next three years. The program will likely lose significant funding because “the drug would fall under the category of preventative services that the State department’s waiver says should no longer be funded.”
The Guardian, 05/24/2025
DW reports on the impacts of the Trump administration's USAID cuts on healthcare in Africa, where as many as "4 million additional people could now die from treatable diseases in Africa as a result.”
DW, 05/11/2025
In Liberia, "hospitals and clinics across the country are bracing for potential shortages of essential medications” as a result of USAID funded program known as the Fixed Amount Reimbursement Agreement. “The cuts present more challenges to security and social cohesion for the government at a time when poverty is rising in rural areas according to Cllr. Tiawan Gongloe, a veteran human rights lawyer and rival presidential candidate in the 2023 election.”
In Syria, a program that “provided wheelchairs, walkers, and prosthetics to those who lost their limbs during the country’s civil war” was shuttered when the organization running it was forced to close.
Devex, 04/08/2025
In Kenya, “roughly 41,500 healthcare and community health workers funded by PEPFAR were sent home or stopped work after the initial freeze, and only about 11,000 had returned to work by last week.” Children in Kenya “who used to receive a three-month supply of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to contain the virus now count their medication in days. Outreach workers, suddenly unemployed, are turning back to sex work in desperation.”
The Washington Post, 04/05/2025
The USAID cuts included $13 million in grants for “Israeli institutions, largely targeting agricultural, scientific and medical research programs.” These cuts mostly impacted “Israeli universities and research institutions. A large majority of the grants were focused on agricultural research projects such as crop resilience and water issues. Others were focused on subjects like desalination, wastewater treatment and health-care issues such as combating bird flu.”
In Kenya, “Despite a temporary waiver that permits the distribution of [HIV programming] commodities for 60 days during the re-evaluation process, the situation remains precarious, with stock levels barely sufficient to carry the program through to November 2025.”
Devex, 03/26/2025
For Sudanese refugees in Chad, the U.S. foreign aid cuts, “have reduced already razor-thin margins for lifesaving resources like food and water, and other U.S. government-funded programs including mental health counseling and education.”
New York Times, 03/18/2025
The dismantling of USAID has given states like China room to fill the donation gap in Southeast Asia. Thailand, for example, is experiencing closures of health clinics like the Mae Tao Clinic, “which provides free medical care to refugees from neighboring Myanmar. With American support halted, the facility cannot buy such medical equipment as incubators for premature babies. It is also struggling to provide technical training to young doctors from Thailand and elsewhere.”
Nikkei Asia, 03/18/2025
“31 of 41 of the International Rescue Committee’s stabilization centers — “in-patient centers for the most severely malnourished children — received termination notices from the Trump administration. Some of those terminations have since been rescinded, but a lack of payment from the U.S. government has hobbled the ability for programs to resume normal operations. Some centers are shuttered, others are severely understaffed and others are running out of specialized food.”
NPR, 03/10/2025
“[T]here have been no confirmed payments to any partners in the Middle East” to fund aid programs intended to combat the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. A program to provide life-saving nutrition treatment has been “significantly scaled down,” organizations that have already purchased medical supplies cannot afford to move them into Gaza, and field hospitals are only able to provide basic services with limited staff.”
AP, 03/07/2025
A USAID agency official estimated that the pause in foreign aid and delays in approving lifesaving assistance will result in “18 million additional cases of malaria per year,” “200,000 children paralyzed with polio annually,” “one million children not treated for severe acute malnutrition,” and “more than 28,000 new cases of such infectious diseases as Ebola and Marburg every year.”
In Senegal, the biggest malaria project that “distributed bed nets and medication to tens of thousands of people” was shut down. The project also provided “maternal and child health and nutrition services.”
AP, 03/01/2025
Programs to prevent the spread of tuberculosis were canceled in Pakistan, India, and 22 other countries. The programs had previously received waivers to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Devex, 02/28/2025
“A $90 million contract … for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would have protected 53 million people” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
In Yemen, a project “that supported community health workers’ efforts to go door-to-door seeking malnourished children” has been canceled. One in five children in Yemen are critically underweight due to the civil war.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A project in Nigeria providing 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with treatment for severe and acute malnutrition” has been canceled. “The termination means 77 health facilities have completely stopped treating children with severe acute malnutrition, putting 60,000 children under the age of 5 at immediate risk of death.”
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A program to protect more than 20 million people in 10 countries in Africa from malaria has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A project providing H.I.V. and tuberculosis treatment to 46,000 people in Uganda” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“While the Trump administration issued a waiver to allow USAID to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda last month, partner organizations were not promptly paid for their work, and USAID’s own efforts were sharply curtailed compared to past efforts to fight Ebola outbreaks.” A USAID team of 60 staffers working on disease response was cut to six staffers.
The Washington Post, 02/26/2025
Amref Health Africa—which put 692 staff on unpaid leave and suspended 20 programs due to the aid freeze—has “since received waivers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue some work covering five programs largely related to HIV in Tanzania and Kenya.” The new waivers are temporary while the U.S. government completes a 90-day review of development and humanitarian aid programs.
Devex, 02/21/2025
In Uganda, at least one health center outside Masaka is running low on HIV testing kits. The center is now only testing people they consider most at risk of being infected, turning away others who might have HIV.
Devex, 02/20/2025
The Family Planning Association of Malawi had to recall staff in the field, preventing contact with an estimated 13,000 to 14,000 people over the next three months. The Association provides services beyond family planning, including cervical cancer screening and treatment.
Devex, 02/13/2025
Clinical trials for two experimental HIV vaccines, developed by a consortium of researchers from eight African countries with enrolled volunteers from South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda have been halted. The consortium does not know how it will continue to pay for cold storage of the vaccines.
The Telegraph, 02/12/2025
Antimalarial campaigns, which must be conducted before the rainy season to be effective, have been postponed. “In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children.” 3.2 million Ugandans will be at risk. In Kenya, 1.45 million people will be left unprotected. In Ethiopia, 2.6 million people won’t receive nets.
Devex, 02/11/2025; Global Health Council, 02/05/2025; The New York Times, 02/01/2025
The loss of U.S. programs for women and girls in South Asia will result in 1,200 additional maternal deaths and 109,000 more unintended pregnancies between 2025 and 2028. The UN Population Fund had to lay off more than 1,700 female health workers, mostly midwives, in Afghanistan.
Devex, 02/06/2025
Surveillance for drug-resistant tuberculosis worldwide has been halted, even as the United States navigates a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas.
Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
“Medical supplies, including drugs to stop hemorrhages in pregnant women and rehydration salts that treat life-threatening diarrhea in toddlers, cannot reach villages in Zambia because the trucking companies transporting them were paid through a suspended supply project of USAID.”
AP, 02/03/2025; ProPublica, 01/31/2025
More than 2.4 million anti-malaria bed nets are stuck in production facilities in Asia, rather than being put to use in sub-Saharan Africa. Contracts for eight million more nets are also on hold.
The New York Times, 02/01/2025
Monitoring of avian flu has been suspended, despite its spread to 49 countries, including the United States. One American has already been killed by the flu on home soil.
Congressional Letter to USAID, 01/31/2025
15 Amref Health Africa programs remain suspended. “[I]n Malawi, 108,443 babies and children will go without full immunizations if funding doesn’t resume, and 100,000 women will go without nutrition-related counseling, support, and antenatal care visits…In Kenya, the organization needs funding to provide nutrition support for 175,995 children.”
Devex, 02/21/2025
“An organization providing support for those affected by HIV/AIDS across Africa only received a limited waiver to continue doing so, meaning children living with an HIV-positive parent no longer being regularly tested for the virus.”
Devex, 02/17/2025
In Afghanistan, 191 health clinics, which are the sole source of lifesaving maternal healthcare in rural areas, will be closed.” Over 200 clinic staffers, many of whom are female health workers, were suspended.
Devex, 02/13/2025; Global Health Council, 02/05/2025
In Kenya, a nonprofit implementing partner that manages the procurement, storage, and distribution of HIV medicines was unable to continue its work despite receiving a waiver to resume “life-saving” work because USAID’s payment systems were down.
Devex, 02/12/2025
USAID’s Global Health Supply Chain Program has been forced to leave $150 million of health products in warehouses, with another $88.5 million of supplies stuck in transit. “Not delivering those commodities on time… could result in more than half a million deaths from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unmet reproductive health needs — including 215,000 pediatric deaths.”
Devex, 02/12/2025
“$150 million in health products are stranded in warehouses, with $88.5 million in transit at risk of expiring, being damaged, or stolen… if those medical products are not delivered, as many as 566,000 people — including 215,000 children — could die from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and unmet reproductive health needs.”
Devex, 02/11/2025
“In Bangladesh, a cholera treatment trial has been abandoned, leaving patients with no plan for next steps.”
The New York Times, 02/09/2025
In Gaza, tens of millions of dollars earmarked for water infrastructure, mobile hospital units and psychological support programs have been suspended.
The New York Times, 02/07/2025
In Gaza, the International Medical Corps “may no longer be able to sustain an emergency department that treats up to 200 patients a day, an outpatient department that serves up to 2,000 people a day and a childbirth unit that delivers roughly 20 babies a day.”
The New York Times, 02/07/2025
“A malaria vaccine study in Britain has stranded volunteers who had received doses but now lack medical follow-ups for potential complications.” A clinical trial for a malaria treatment in children in Mozambique was halted.
The New York Times, 02/09/2025; The New York Times, 02/06/2025
In Pakistan, “62 health facilities located amid refugee villages will lose access to lifesaving maternal healthcare.”
AP, 02/03/2025
Efforts to combat a deadly outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania have been suspended.
Congressional Letter to USAID, 01/31/2025
PEPFAR will be unable to support cervical cancer screening, diagnoses, and treatment services for women living with HIV. Approximately 7,164 women will not be screened and approximately 363 diagnoses of cervical cancer or precancerous lesions will be missed every day.
amfAR, 01/20/2025
In Ivory Coast, “approximately 516 health care facilities have been forced to” close.
New York Times, 03/08/2025
In Uganda, contact tracing efforts and surveillance for the Ebola outbreak have been “severely hindered without U.S. assistance.” The termination of $1.6 million in grants has made it difficult for the Ugandan government to procure “sufficient laboratory supplies, diagnostic equipment and protective gear for medical workers and people tracing contacts.”
New York Times, 03/06/2025
The International Rescue Committee in South Sudan shut down a project that provided access to “health care and nutrition services to more than 115,000 people.”
AP, 03/01/2025
Funding to support dozens of medical clinics in Sudan providing IVs, oxygen, and emergency feeding treatments to infants and children has been terminated. Without constant care, these children will die within 4-8 hours. The program had previously received a waiver to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Four of five U.S. contracts for Ebola-related work in Uganda have been canceled. “The contracts funded Ebola screening at airports and protective equipment for health workers, and helped prevent transmission by survivors of the disease.”
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“All of the operating costs and 10 percent of the drug budget of the Global Drug Facility, the main supply channel for tuberculosis medications, which last year provided tuberculosis treatment to nearly three million people, including 300,000 children” have been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“Pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal” have been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
20 civil relief groups providing healthcare (including HIV/AIDS treatment and testing) to nearly 140,000 refugees in camps along the Thai-Myanmar border are at risk of being suspended. Patients in need of treatment are being turned away.
The New York Times, 01/31/2025; Radio Free Asia, 01/29/2025
“The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.”
Washington Post, 06/29/25
“In Mozambique, the health system is overwhelmingly built on US money. When the Trump administration instantly pulled much of this funding without warning, disease and death spread. Spotlight and GroundUp visited one of the worst-affected regions to describe the human toll.” “Interviews with grieving caregivers, health workers and government officials across these settlements all converged on one clear and near-universal conclusion: the funding cuts have led to the deaths of children.”
“A State Department official said Pepfar continued to support ‘lifesaving HIV testing, care and treatment’ including for orphans and vulnerable children, but that all other services are currently being reviewed. But that’s not how people working on the ground see things playing out.” “The US has withheld money previously promised to IDF Kenya for services including medication counselling and psychological support since Trump took office, and the facility has already recorded deaths of children who were no longer able to access medication.”
The Independent, 6/17/25
A Washington Post analysis found that “there is no dispute that people have died because the Trump administration abruptly suspended foreign aid. One might quibble over whether tens of thousands — or hundreds of thousands — have died. But you can’t call it a lie.”
Washington Post, 05/28/25
In Malawi, cases of mpox are rising as U.S. aid cuts have exacerbated vaccine shortages and severely depleted access to HIV medication. “Health officials had reported that patients who had been on ART (antiretroviral therapy) had been forced to stop taking their medication because of the drug shortages. HIV can worsen the risk and severity of mpox, while effective HIV treatment can help manage the risk.”
The Guardian, 05/26/2025
In India, dozens of community-led health organizations have lost funding, critically impacting the efficacy of “TB champions” who work to “raise awareness, reduce stigma and support patients in a country with the highest number of [tuberculosis] infections in the world.” Without these groups, “public health experts in India are warning of a spike in infections and deaths from tuberculosis.” Across the globe, a “Stop TB Partnership study showed that USAID's funding cuts could lead to as much as a 36% rise in cases and a 68% jump in deaths to 2.24 million by 2030 in 26 high burden countries.”
Deccan Herald, 05/13/2025
U.S. funding cuts have forced the large-scale suspension of outreach and harm reduction programs and clinics that distribute “opioid agonist maintenance therapy (OAMT), also known as medically assisted treatment” meant “to alleviate withdrawal symptoms and reduce injecting drug use, which in turn lowers the risk of acquiring HIV.” Previously, PEPFAR “supported OAMT to 27,000 people in seven countries (India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda). In many cases these were and are the only services available. They also supported harm reduction programmes in Mozambique, Myanmar and Kazakhstan.”
UNAIDS, 05/05/2025
According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in Somalia, “the closure of maternal and child health clinics and a therapeutic feeding center in Baidoa, cut off monthly care to hundreds of malnourished children. MSF nutrition programs in Baidoa have reported an increase in severe acute malnutrition admissions since the funding cuts. The MSF-supported Bay Regional Hospital has received patients traveling as far as 120 miles for care due to facility closures elsewhere.”
Medecins Sans Frontieres, 04/24/25
Yale University lost support for a program to train “epidemiologists and laboratory specialists to monitor malaria, dengue, antimicrobial resistance and vaccine efficacy” in Chad, which would have empowered the country to “identify and respond to public health threats without waiting for external help.” Yale also lost a $15 million award for health education initiatives in Liberia where the foreign aid freeze had already “shuttered the country’s only high-fidelity simulation facility used for life-saving clinical education.”
Yale Daily News, 04/21/25
According to a “What’s In” and “What’s Out” list disseminated by USAID leadership, “awards with a focus on ‘broad and stand-alone behavior change, health systems strengthening, knowledge management, broad research, and technical assistance (not directly tied to lifesaving service delivery activities)’ will be cut from future foreign aid in the health sector.
Devex, 04/17/25
In South Sudan, eight people, including five children, “died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera,” following the U.S. foreign aid cuts, which caused local health services to close. “Three of the children were under the age of 5.”
Reuters, 04/09/2025
In northeast Nigeria, a young boy with sickle cell disease died when his local health clinic—funded by USAID—was closed due to the stop-work order and he was unable to receive medical treatment.
NPR, 05/28/2025
In Haiti, a non-profit organization caring for orphans with HIV/AIDS will run out of medical supplies at the end of July. At a nearby hospital, more than 550 patients living with HIV/AIDS will lose access to medication in two months. “Experts say Haiti could see a rise in HIV infections because medications are dwindling at a time that gang violence and poverty are surging.”
Africa News, 05/25/2025
In South Africa, viral load testing for people living with HIV who are on anti-retroviral treatments “fell by up to 21% among key groups in the last two months, which four HIV experts said appeared to be due to the loss of U.S. funding.” “With less testing, fewer people who may transmit the virus will be identified. Missing a test can also indicate that a patient has dropped out of the system and may be missing treatment.”
Reuters, 05/14/2025
The UN Population Fund has had to curtail its support for midwifery, and “will only be able to fund 47 per cent of the 3,521 midwives it had planned to support in 2025.” “In Afghanistan alone, loss of support for 409 midwives will cut access to skilled care for an estimated half a million women.”
UNFPA, 05/05/2025
At one clinic in Zambia, over 6,400 HIV positive patients have lost their access to healthcare services and medications due to canceled contracts and staffing cuts from the review and cancellation of U.S. foreign assistance.
NPR, 04/18/2025
Malaria’s progress is at risk because of the foreign aid cuts. In Africa, “stocks of rapid diagnostic tests and medicines have reached critically low levels.” These cuts also “threaten to undermine critical investments in scientific innovation, including in new and improved preventive, diagnostic and treatment interventions as well as in new tools to address drug and insecticide resistance.”
World Health Organization, 04/11/25
“The Trump administration has notified the World Food Program and other partners that it has terminated some of the last remaining lifesaving humanitarian programs across the Middle East,” according to two AP sources.
AP, 04/07/2025
Devex, 02/17/2025
Ten health clinics offering free care to displaced persons in northern Syria have closed. Doctors of the World, which runs several clinics in northern Syria, has cut its daily consultations down from 5,000 to 500.
AP, 02/13/2025
A 71-year-old woman died after her oxygen supply was cut off and she was unable to return to a USAID-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). The IRC has had to close seven of its nine hospitals supporting 80,000 people along the Myanmar border.
The Telegraph, 02/11/2025
“In South Africa, researchers were forced to shut down an H.I.V. prevention trial, leaving women with experimental implants inside their bodies and without ongoing medical oversight.”
The New York Times, 02/09/2025
“Project Hope in Namibia, which linked children in rural communities with HIV treatment and prevention, is another programme to have its [orphans and vulnerable children] funding under Pepfar withheld since January.” “Project Hope in Namibia says its plan to make sure its services could be maintained by the local government by 2028 had been scuppered by the programmes abrupt ending, however. The process of transferring responsibility over including training up local staff will now be a lot harder, achieving exactly the opposite of this goal.”
The Independent, 6/17/25
“Contraceptives that could help prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies in some of the world’s poorest countries are stuck in warehouses because of U.S. aid cuts and could be destroyed, two aid industry sources and one former government official said.”
Reuters, 06/05/25
Nicholas Kristof: “Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?”
NYT, 05/31/25
“Two U.S.-funded programs in Gaza were also terminated, which included a $275,000 United Nations Office for Project Services, or UNOPS, program to move aid across the border, as well as a $12 million program, implemented by a nongovernmental organization, to provide clean drinking water and medical care — supporting Gaza’s decimated health systems.”
The foreign aid freeze is projected to terminate funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, an international organization providing vaccines to children. “The loss of U.S. funds will set back the organization’s ability to continue to provide its basic range of services — such as immunization for measles and polio — to a growing population of children in the poorest countries, let alone expand to include new vaccines. By Gavi’s own estimate, the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.”
New York Times, 03/26/2025
According to the United Nations AIDS Agency, “there could be 2,000 new HIV infections every day globally due to USAID cuts.” Without the restoration or replacement of funding, “there will be, in the next four years, an additional 6.3 million AIDs-deaths.”
Reuters, 03/24/2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has “already scaled back the ambition of the health emergencies two-year budget from $1.2 billion to $872 million” because of the loss of U.S. funding. Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO deputy director-general, says that to cut back spending to fit the new budget, tough decisions are ahead. “The question is, what do you want to stop doing? You want to stop doing Ebola? You want to stop doing emergency medical teams responding to major disasters in the world? Would you like to stop intelligence gathering so that we know what the next epidemic or pandemic will be?”
In Bangladesh, after an NGO was forced to shut down maternal health services at the world’s largest refugee camp, only 40-50% of pregnant women there now make it to a hospital bed to give birth. Previously, the figure was 95%.
CBC, 03/08/2025
“[I]n Lesotho, Eswatini, and Tanzania, a program supporting more than 350,000 people on HIV treatment — including 10,000 children and 10,000 HIV-positive pregnant mothers — was terminated.” The program had previously received a waiver to continue delivering lifesaving assistance.
Devex, 02/28/2025
“A $131 million grant to UNICEF’s polio immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
“A contract to manage and distribute $34 million worth of medical supplies in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthlong H.I.V. treatments, 750,000 H.I.V. tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 antimalaria bed nets” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
A project in six West African countries providing “more than 35 million people with the medicine to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis” has been canceled.
The New York Times, 02/27/2025
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