Trump’s decision to withdraw external assistance and disassemble the US service for international development is likely to cause enormous human suffering, according to estimates by the organization itself. Between them:
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Up to 18 million additional cases of malaria per year, and 166,000 additional deaths.
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200,000 children were paralyzed by polio annually and hundreds of millions of infections.
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One million children who are not treated for severe acute malnutrition, who is often fatal, every year.
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More than 28,000 new cases of such infectious diseases such as Ebola and Marburg each year.
These intense views were created in a series of notes by Nicholas Enrich, an assistant manager for Global Health in USAID, acquired by the New York Times. Mr. Enrich was placed on administrative leave on Sunday.
In a note, he put responsibility for these possible health crises regarding “political leadership in the USAID, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Doge, which have created and continue to create deliberate and/or unintentional obstacles that have completely hindered” assistance programs.
These leaders have ruled out the payment systems, created new and ineffective payments procedures and have constantly shifted guidance on activities characterized as “salvation”, Mr. Enrich wrote.
Another note describes the cutting of the organization’s global workforce from 783 to January 20 to less than 70 on Sunday.
In an interview, Mr Enrich said he had released his notes on Sunday afternoon, reached an email, putting him on leave, to set the record in modernizing USAID staff and ending thousands of subsidies for life.
In detail the order of events behind the scenes, he hoped “it will be clear that we were never really given the opportunity to apply humanitarian aid to rescue humanitarian aid”.
Officials at the Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to request for comments.
In January, the Trump administration froze the funds intended for foreign aid. On January 28, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio issued a temporary resignation for humanitarian aid.
But very little money has really been delivered, essentially shuttering worldwide assistance programs and forcing hundreds of organizations to inflate or set fire to workers.
Still, USAID global health workers tried to stay optimistic and “do everything we can” to implement exemptions, Mr Enrich said.
But on Wednesday, the Trump administration abruptly finished about 5,800 projects funded by USAID, including many who had received exemptions.
“It was finally clear that we were not going to apply under this resignation,” said Enrich.
“I needed for myself and all the staff who had spilled their hearts to do this – we needed files to show what had happened,” he said.
Mr Enrich said he was hoping to draw another note, showing the ways he and others had conveyed the dangers of disturbing critical programs to mark Lloyd and Tim Meisburger, politicians appointed to the Organization. But they repeatedly asked for more details to justify the programs, he said.
“It is clear that Trump’s administration is well aware that it is violating judicial orders and does not provide help for salvation claimed to be funded by resignation,” said Matthew Kavanagh, Director of the University of the University of the University of Political and Political Health.
“Unless it is reversed, this will cost millions of lives from government accounting,” Dr. Kavanagh added.
According to Mr Enrich’s note, other devastating effects could include uncontrolled outposts of MPox and bird flu, including 105 million cases only in the United States, increasing mother and children’s mortality in 48 countries and increasing tuberculosis.
The interruption of TB programs abroad will lead to more patients arriving in the United States, Mr Enrich’s note warned. Treatment of a patient with multiple tuberculosis -resistant patients costs more than $ 154,000 in the United States.
(Trump’s administration is said to be ready plans to turn back immigrants on the grounds that they could bring tuberculosis to the country.)
The notes also note the disorder in an attempt to contain Ebola in Uganda.
A single ebola patient in New York in 2014 costs the city’s health department $ 4.3 million in response measures. The outburst in Uganda seemed to lean, but a 4 -year -old boy died earlier in the week, indicating that the virus was still circulating.
The consequences can be expanded beyond human health, affecting US businesses – including agriculture – and families by increasing the cost of health care, disrupting international trade and awnings of domestic resources.
Mother and children’s health programs and nutrition can stabilize the economy and political climate in other countries, the note said.
“Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to create or abolish organizations and allow costs, not the president,” Dr. Kavanagh said.
With the disassembly of USAID and ending its programs, Trump’s administration not only “risks death for millions of the most marginalized worldwide, but also causes a constitutional crisis in the service of cruelty,” Dr. Kavanagh added.
