Achol Deng, 8, had been infected with H.I.V. at birth in South Sudan but had been kept alive by American-provided medicines costing just 12 cents a day. The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. and the resulting chaos meant that she lost her caseworker and access to medicines, and soon died of an opportunistic infection, health workers told me.
I could keep going. A Boston University researcher estimated that the aid cuts have cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide. A study published in the Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates, the aid defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030.
These figures may not be accurate; we just don’t have solid mortality data, and the aid cuts have also reduced data collection. What I can say after visiting numerous impoverished villages is that aid cuts are unquestionably costing the lives of many children.
- 12 cents a day, is 4380 cents a year, or $44 dollars.
- Does the USA have to pay $44 to everyone with AIDS in South Sudan?
- Elon's from South Africa, where about 20% of people, out of 65M, that's 13M people, 13 million people, are HIV positive. He's from South Africa. He doesn't believe that it's his moral obligation, to force Americans to have to pay $44 x 13,000,000 = $560 million every year to South Africa
- Why don't you start by replacing your Kofi Anan and your Nelson Mandela with pictures of American leaders, like Trump if you want the USA to run your country for you?
- The Boston university researcher should publish his or her or their article on a good research paper, so we can peer review it
- The 9.4m lives is BS, that's guesswork, a zombie death-count guess
- Yes you do not have solid mortality data, yes these figures are not accurate, and no, the aid cuts haven't cut data collection
- They are NOT costing the lives of children, this is a case of Marlon Brando's Apocalypse Now, where they are chopping arms off kids who got polio vaccines, because of their equivalence in failed, dependency mis-leadership