USAID has been formally shut down, coinciding with a significant development financing conference in Seville. This shift has raised alarming concerns about reversing progress towards the 2030 sustainable development goals. Proposed aid cuts could result in over 14 million additional deaths, particularly among children. Most aid programs have been scaled back, with countries like the UK and Germany also reducing budgets to allocate funds for defense. This retreat from aid has created dire implications for stability and health, heightening the risk of future pandemics and exacerbating global instability.
A study published in the Lancet predicted that Donald Trump's aid cuts could claim more than 14 million lives by 2030, a third of them among children.
Oxfam says that the collective retrenchment by G7 nations is the biggest aid cut since 1960, with spending 26% lower in 2026 than it was last year.
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