The Trump administration's recent freeze on foreign aid is resulting in the termination of the Demographic and Health Surveys program, which provided essential public health data to approximately half of the world's nations. This program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development, collected invaluable health information across 90 low- and middle-income countries. The discontinuation means these nations will lose critical metrics for addressing maternal and child health, nutrition, and disease monitoring, impacting global health benchmarks, including the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations.
The Demographic and Health Surveys, crucial for public health data in many countries, are terminating due to the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid.
Without future surveys, measuring the impact of foreign aid cuts on weak health infrastructures will be nearly impossible, experts caution.
Evaluation and monitoring of public health programs will be severely hindered without the extensive data provided by the Demographic and Health Surveys.
Win Brown expresses concern that implementing thoughtful public health programs is out of reach without the data that D.H.S. provides.
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