How USAID Funding Cuts Are Killing Kids
How many kids have to die before Elon Musk admits the DOGE cuts to USAID were a mistake?
USAID funding cuts, initiated by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), are killing kids.
Something that Elon Musk denies…
How USAID Funding Cuts Are Killing Kids
But something for which there is plenty of evidence…
“US aid was key to funding vaccines combating a host of other diseases, protecting 2.3 million children against diphtheria, measles, polio and tetanus.”
US aid cuts push Bangladesh’s health sector to the edge
Just take the ongoing measles epidemic in Bangladesh, with over 71,000 cases and nearly 600 deaths.
Although it obviously wasn’t caused by funding cuts to USAID, the measles epidemic in Bangladesh has certainly been exacerbated by the cuts, as vaccine stockpiles were reduced and health clinics were closed due to the loss of funding.
“Children and vulnerable people around the world are dying from preventable illnesses and malnutrition. Some experts estimate more than 600,000 preventable deaths in just over a year.”
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Musk also denies that the media is covering the effect of the cuts on kids.
“The sudden and severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of the camps’ schools and youth training centers and crippled child protection programs. Beyond unwanted marriages, scores of children as young as 10 were forced into backbreaking manual labor, and girls as young as 12 forced into prostitution. With no safe space to play or learn, children were left to wander the labyrinthine camps, making them increasingly easy targets for kidnappers. And the young and desperate were picked off by traffickers who promised to restore what the children had lost: Hope”
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And that also isn’t true…
“On May 7, Taher and his wife watched their baby take his final breath. Their other children began to scream.”
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
There are plenty of stories that Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts to USAID have led to:
worsening of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda
neglected tropical diseases, like lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, coming back as drug distribution drives in high risk countries ended
the shutting down of emergency ambulance services in many countries
more cases of severe acute malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, with stunting, wasting, and deaths
children contracting and dying with malaria because health centers have run out of mosquito nets and anti-malaria medicines
deaths from cholera in South Sudan
an end to programs targeting tuberculosis, which means a huge risk that drug resistant tuberculosis will emerge in many countries
Rohingya refugees getting half of their usual rations of food
an end to HIV prevention programs in Gaza and Mozambique, which has the second-largest AIDS epidemic in the world
the closure of HIV treatment programs in many countries that covered over ten thousand children and pregnant women
the deaths of refugees at food distribution centers in Malawi because of severe hunger
the loss of health services for children at a detention camp in Syria
people in Uganda and Tanzania skipping or rationing doses of HIV medications
deaths from increased violence in conflict prone areas
the loss of healthcare and malnutrition treatment to children, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in Yemen
clinical trials being stopped or interrupted, including clinical trials for HIV vaccines, a malaria vaccine, and treatments for cholera and tuberculosis
less money to the effort to finally eradicate polio!
So it is obvious that children and adults are suffering because of the DOGE cuts to USAID.
“A pregnant woman in a Liberian village hemorrhaged and began to bleed heavily while in labor. But without gas, because of funding cuts, USAID ambulances stood idle, unable to help. And despite her neighbors’ best efforts to carry her ten miles on foot through the jungle to the nearest hospital, she died mid-journey, along with her unborn son.”
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It is very obvious that children and adults are dying because of the DOGE cuts to USAID.
“The series of cruel and illegal cuts to U.S. lifesaving humanitarian and development aid the Trump administration initiated on day one has already cost lives and undermined the entire global aid system. Oxfam analysis of aid cut impact predictions finds that that these actions have led to the risk that a child under 5 could die every 40 seconds by 2030. Already, conservative estimates projected that 200,000 children under five would die in 2025 due to these cuts, leading to the first rise in under-five child mortality this century.”
A child under five could die every forty seconds by 2030 due to U.S. aid cuts, Oxfam analysis finds
And it is very obvious that the problem isn’t that the media isn’t covering the suffering and deaths caused by the impact of the DOGE cuts, but rather that most people are ignoring the stories.
“Elon Musk should sit before the House Oversight Committee and testify, under oath, about what he did.”
Elon Musk Wants Me in Prison. I Want Him Under Oath.
Stories that will be hard to ignore as outbreaks grow and more children die.
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You people need to stick with the science of vaccines, and leave partisan politics out of your posts.
This is just TDS hype.