"Atul Gawande, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) global-health efforts during the Biden administration, condemned the shutdown of his former agency as an example of Donald Trump's "cruelty and lethality." Gawande cites statistics implicating Trump in the deaths of over 600,000 adults and children, following the president's executive order suspending all U.S. foreign aid in January. "We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed 'public man-made death,'" Gawande says in an essay in The New Yorker."
"Deaths caused by "funding discontinuation" include 198,878 adult deaths and 413,613 child deaths, according to the "Impact Metrics Dashboard" cited by Gawande. The dashboard is maintained by Brooke Nichols, a Boston University epidemiologist and mathematical modeler. To date, an estimated 127,073 adult and 13,527 infant deaths have been caused by the effects of HIV/AIDS due to cuts in funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); 124,434 deaths have occurred due to child malnutrition; 101,048 due to child diarrhea; over 57,000 child and adult deaths due to malaria; and 49,686 deaths from tuberculosis."
The suspension of U.S. foreign aid and the shutdown of USAID are associated with modelled estimates attributing over 600,000 preventable adult and child deaths to funding discontinuation. An Impact Metrics Dashboard maintained by a Boston University epidemiologist and mathematical modeler attributes 198,878 adult deaths and 413,613 child deaths to funding cuts. Recorded causes include an estimated 127,073 adult and 13,527 infant deaths from HIV/AIDS due to reduced PEPFAR funding; 124,434 deaths from child malnutrition; 101,048 from child diarrhea; more than 57,000 malaria deaths; and 49,686 tuberculosis deaths. Models are described as conservative and full accounting may await UN 2025 mortality statistics.
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