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Lancet Study Predicts Over 14 Million Preventable Deaths from USAID Cuts

Global leaders convene in Seville to confront the humanitarian fallout from deep USAID funding cuts.

Congolese refugees look through a corrugated metal fence at the final batches of food delivered by the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in a storage and food delivery area at the Musenyi refugee site in Giharo, on May 7.
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Overview

  • The analysis finds that an 83% reduction in USAID funding risks more than 14 million additional deaths globally by 2030, including 4.5 million children under five.
  • USAID programs averted nearly 92 million deaths between 2001 and 2021 through interventions against HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and child mortality.
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s March directive canceled 83% of USAID’s portfolio and transferred remaining projects to the State Department.
  • The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns these cuts mark the deepest funding decline ever in the international aid sector.
  • A lawsuit filed by USAID staff is challenging the funding eliminations in court, and the U.S. has declined to send representatives to the Seville aid conference.