Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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A third of those at risk of premature deaths were children, researchers projected.
Low- and middle-income countries were facing a shock "comparable in scale to a global pandemic or a major armed conflict," said Davide Rasella, who co-authored the report.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in March that over 80% of all programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had been cancelled. The Trump administration has taken aim at what it sees as wasteful spending.
The controversial cutbacks - which were condemned around the world by humanitarian organisations - were overseen by Elon Musk. The billionaire was then leading an initiative to shrink the federal workforce.
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