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After USAID cuts, Nepal reported significant increases in maternal and infant deaths as healthcare aid workers left, illustrating the human cost of reduced U.S. development assistance.
After USAID funding was cut, Nepal reported significant increases in maternal and infant deaths as health workers withdrew from clinics. These are preventable deaths tied directly to the loss of aid funding and staffing.
Measuring the human cost of aid cuts is usually abstract, but this shows it concretely. Women dying in childbirth and infants dying from preventable causes are direct consequences of the funding freeze. The health workers didn't leave because they're lazy—they left because there was no money to pay them. This illustrates how development aid cuts don't just affect poverty statistics; they affect mortality rates. For Nepal specifically, this undermines health infrastructure that took years to build.
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