A research published in the ‘The Lancet’ medical journal has indicated that Donald Trump’s decision to cut aid for the US funding towards foreign humanitarian efforts could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.
According to the findings, children are at a greater risk of premature death, and that includes over 4.5 million children under the age of five, or around 700,000 child deaths a year.
Statistics show that data from 133 nations estimated that USAID funding had prevented 91 million deaths in developing countries between 2001 and 2021.
The US, by far the world’s largest humanitarian aid provider, has operated in more than 60 countries, largely through contractors.
Last month, a UN official told the BBC that hundreds of thousands of people were “slowly starving” in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels.
In March this year, President Trump’s administration had cancelled over 80% of all programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Meanwhile, this week, dozens of world leaders are meeting in the Spanish city of Seville for a United Nations-led aid conference, the biggest one in a decade.
Source: The BBC
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