Trump’s aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

President Donald Trump’s move to reduce most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid can cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to the research published in the Lancet Medical Magazine.

A third of those at risk of early deaths from children is expected to be researchers.

David Rasilla, who co -authorized the report, said that the low and medium -income countries face a shock “similar in size to a global pandemic or a major armed conflict.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in March that more than 80 % of all programs at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had been canceled. The Trump administration took the target to what it sees as a wasteful spending.

Elon Musk supervised the controversial cuts – condemned by humanitarian organizations all over the world – by Elon Musk. Then the billionaire was leading an initiative to reduce the federal workforce.

During his second term, Trump has repeatedly said he wanted to spend abroad being closely parallel to his “America first” approach.

“The risks stop suddenly – and even unlike – two decades of progress in health between the weak population,” said the statement issued by Rasella, a researcher at the Barcelona Institute of International Health.

In their reportRsella and his colleagues, the researchers, estimated that the financing of the United States Agency for International Development has prevented 90 million deaths in developing countries between 2001 and 2021.

They made the potential impact of death rates with the assumption that the financing will be reduced by 83 % – the number provided by Rubio in March.

The researchers suggested that the cuts could lead to a “amazing” number of more than 14 million deaths that can be avoided by 2030.

This added that this includes the death of more than 4.5 million children under the age of five.

The Lancet report was published at a time when dozens of world leaders are gathering in the Spanish city of Seville this week to attend a United Nations -led assistant conference, the largest of its kind in a decade. The United States is not expected to attend.

The United States has worked to a large extent the largest humanitarian aid provider in the world, in more than 60 countries, to a large extent through contractors. According to government data, $ 68 billion (55 billion pounds) on international aid was spent in 2023.

The United States Agency for International Development was seen as an integral part of the global aid system. After announcing Trump’s discounts, other countries followed their example with their own discounts – including the United Kingdom, France and Germany.

The movements were widely condemned by humanitarian organizations. Last month, the United Nations said it was dealing with “the deepest financing discounts ever to strike the international humanitarian sector.”

According to Rubio’s data in March, there are still nearly 1,000 remaining American programs that can be managed “more effectively” during the era of the US State Department and consulting with Congress.

However, the situation on Earth did not improve, according to the United Nations workers.

Last month, the United Nations official told the BBC that hundreds of thousands of people were “slowly starving” in Kenyan refugee camps after the United States reduced the reduction of food rations to their lowest levels ever.

At a hospital in Kakoma, in northwest of Kenya, BBC witnessed A child who could barely move and show signs of malnutrition, including the presence of parts of her skin and peeling skin.