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USAID cuts may cause 14 million more deaths in next five years, study sayswww.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/01/usaid-cuts-aid-14-million-deaths/
325 sats \ 13 comments \ @Coinsreporter 2 Jul Politics_And_Law
In the Lancet report, researchers write that higher levels of USAID funding were associated with a 15 percent reduction in “all-cause” mortality worldwide over 21 years. The strongest association between levels of USAID funding and mortality was in deaths from HIV/AIDS, which were reduced by 65 percent, the report said. Malaria mortality was also reduced by 51 percent and neglected tropical disease by 50 percent, it said.
Yes I understand that's none of US's business anymore to take interest in saving lives of millions of people from poor countries by the money of its taxpayers, but did the taxpayers approve it? Also when US sustained over 60+ years with USAID why this sudden rage towards the weak??
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 2 Jul
"humanitarian aid" that induces dependency is not "aid".
those organizations around the world that were responsible for doling out "help" to "the needy" were managed by people who got paid. it's those institutional managers and directors who are the largest beneficiaries of "the aid" (printed US money).
if you would like to see your government print and give away more of the money they tell us we must use, then I would advise that the best way to have a positive impact would be to give DIRECTLY to the people who need, without an institutional intermediary.
literally dumping bags of money out of the air over places experiencing "need" would be a better use of the funds (in terms of helping the needy), than developing, training, and institutionalizing the managers into dependence on foreign money for their income, in these "needy" places
however, if you wanted to develop the CIA's ability to cause color revolutions, then USAID seems to have done a great job.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 2 Jul
Was Lancet funded by USAID? I mean they were funding pretty much everything else. I get what you are saying. I am sure amongst the grift and fraud and waste they did fund some purposeful things. Hopefully in the remnants of the ashes of USAID the things that do deserve funding will be helped by other organizations.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Jul
I know several people who were doing perfectly normal research in developing countries with USAID funding.
I suspect they’ll find other ways to continue their work. Or they won’t and the loss will be negligible anyway.
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22 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Jul
It’s not rage towards the weak. USAID was preposterously corrupt and refused to cooperate with auditors because their books were so incriminating.
Americans give more to charity than any other people.
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42 sats \ 7 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 2 Jul
USAID was preposterously corrupt and refused to cooperate with auditors because their books were so incriminating.
Then USAID should see some reformation than dismantling.
In terms of total amount given, the United States is typically the largest donor of humanitarian aid. However, when looking at aid as a percentage of Gross National Income (GNI), other countries like Sweden, Luxembourg, and Norway have been noted to contribute a larger proportion of their wealth to foreign aid.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/275597/largers-donor-countries-of-aid-worldwide/
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @itsrealfake 2 Jul
would you reform "the mafia" ?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Jul
Good analogy. A propaganda rag like WaPo would decry the loss of “protection services”.
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Jul
I don’t agree. The function of USAID was to prop up corrupt regimes around the world and push corrupt American agendas onto foreign people. It needed to be disbanded.
There’s no good reason for tax dollars to go towards that sort of thing.
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 2 Jul
I believe you. I'm just saying there can be another way to help the needy or poverty ridden people. I'm with humanity and if America can it should. If not through USAID, then something else.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Jul
That’s what private charity is for.
The best way to help the world politically is to stop meddling in everyone’s affairs and open our markets to all.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter OP 2 Jul
Alright. US has a high number at giving index. Let's see how they keep doing charity. And how Trump uses the saved tax money!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 2 Jul
I don't know about other countries, but for Cuba, USAID had spent 1.5 million dollars to "rebuild" the Cuban media ecosystem, in an attempt to destabilize the dictatorship, and that was only in 2023, I believe, and in previous years it had reached 14 million, something absurd considering that no dictatorship will fall with a news blog and in the end it didn't solve anything.
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