"Fever ravaged the body of 5-year-old Suza Kenyaba as she sweated and shivered on a thin mattress in a two-room clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The pigtailed girl who liked pretty dresses was battling malaria and desperately needed medication that could save her life. That medication, already purchased by a U.S.-taxpayer-funded program, was tantalizingly close - a little more than seven miles away."
"The injections Suza needed had traveled thousands of miles to the Central African nation, USAID and other records show, only to be stranded in a regional distribution warehouse in the same city where she was gasping for air. Less than a week after her symptoms began, Suza was dead. Congolese government data shows that in Suza's province, deaths caused by malaria nearly tripled in the first half of this year."
A five-year-old girl in the Democratic Republic of Congo died after antimalarial injections purchased by a U.S.-taxpayer-funded program failed to reach the clinic where she was treated. The injections were stranded in a regional distribution warehouse only a few miles away after U.S. foreign aid was suspended, throwing supply chains into chaos. Parts of USAID's Global Health Supply Chain Program resumed within days, but lingering effects left deliveries severely disrupted for months and impeded shipments to more than 40 countries. Internal data from the first half of the year show supplies valued at over $190 million were scheduled, with nearly $76 million not delivered, including most medication for severe malaria.
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