Elon Musk's DOGE has severely impacted USAID, leading to healthcare collapses in South Sudan. Reports indicate that local health workers lack essential medications, causing preventable child deaths, such as from malaria. A local mother lost one child to malaria and her second child fell ill, highlighting the real-life consequences of funding cuts. Other tragedies included maternal deaths during childbirth due to ambulatory service cuts. While some funding has been reinstated, healthcare services remain critically impaired, affecting the poorest communities significantly.
Because of the collapse of USAID, neither the local health worker nor the hospital had the really cheap malaria medicine, and the baby died.
You just see this mom with a sick child and all these arguments that I hear about, oh, this isn't our responsibility and we should look after our own kids.
A woman died in childbirth because USAID funding for the fuel for an ambulance had been cut, and young children died after losing access to HIV medication.
The problem is, some things have been uncancelled, but the extent to which services have been restored is still limited.
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