The US and UK cuts to aid are a death sentence for millions of people

The Trump administration’s cuts to, or rather near eradication of, US Agency for International Development (USAID) have predictably deadly consequences for those who the funding previously helped.

A recent scientific study puts the number of deaths that the cuts will cause at somewhere around astonishing 14 million deaths by the year 2030, including 4.5 million children under the age of 5.

Our estimates show that, unless the abrupt funding cuts announced and implemented in the first half of 2025 are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030.

Over here in Britain, the Labour government have also made huge cuts to aid.

“ONE”, an organisation that fights “for a more resilient, equitable future for all” calculated the potential death count from these cuts at at least 600,000 over five years - and that seems to be based only one one of the programs Britain helped fund, Gavi.