A new report from the Associated Press found that women and babies are dying at an alarming rate in Nepal after foreign aid shuttered a program aimed at keeping them alive through childbirth, though the government has said no one has died because of funding cuts. MS Now's Ines de Cuetara joined The Weekend to provide more context for those "devastating consequences."
Dr. Kenneth Ngure, president-elect of the International AIDS Society, says. "We have had very good scientific advances ... yet the funding cuts have also taken us back."
Trump’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71 percent cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025.
In March, the UK announced it would trim its global aid budget and set new priorities in 2027. This has some countries and organizations worried that on top of the US aid cuts, this could be unsurvivable.
Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers.