The article discusses the severe repercussions of President Trump's suspension of foreign aid on women's health care globally. Clinics providing maternity, reproductive, and cancer care are turning women away, leading to devastating consequences. Approximately 2.5 million women and girls have already lost access to contraceptive services, a figure projected to reach 11.7 million soon. This situation is compounded by the restructuring of the U.S. Agency for International Development, raising alarms among organizations like the UN and the Global Health Council about the significant impact on health and lives of women and girls worldwide.
For example, as of Wednesday, about 2.5 million women and girls have been denied contraceptive care, said Dr. Elizabeth Sully. That number will balloon to 11.7 million by the end of the Trump administration's 90-day review process for foreign aid.
We are in the fight for everybody's lives. You can't get treatment and you can't get care because America has decided on a whim that you are not worthy, said Elisha Dunn-Georgiou.
According to the United Nations and other women-focused global aid agencies, decades of female-focused health care work has been decimated overnight.
The United States Agency for International Development, or U.S.A.I.D., through which much of aid for women's groups was distributed, has been essentially gutted.
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