Count the Dead by the Millions - RollingStone

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A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

In short: Tens of millions will die, millions of them children.

The second Trump administration began by driving a stake through the heart of America’s foreign aid programs. Led by Musk, and enabled by Secretary of State Rubio, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been shuttered, and its life-saving programs in global health either defunded or thrown into disarray.

The new paper is not yet finalized or peer-reviewed; it was published as part of a project called Preprints with The Lancet. But it offers a first glimpse of the potential impact of the Trump administration’s cut-and-run approach to foreign aid — fueled by lies and red-pill conspiracy theories promoted by Musk about USAID being a “radical left” and “criminal” organization that deserved to be sent through the “wood chipper.”

The study models the collapse of nearly $13 billion in U.S. funding for health programs in developing countries, including for the treatment and prevention of HIV and tuberculosis; family planning; and maternal and child health. It forecasts the increase in global death and suffering through 2040 if this funding — which accounts for nearly a quarter of global donor investment — is zeroed out.

The findings shock the conscience. Cessation of U.S. aid will lead to people in poor countries dying, in genocidal proportions, of preventable and treatable diseases. That includes more than 15 million additional deaths from HIV/AIDS, more than 2 million additional casualties from tuberculosis, and nearly 8 million additional children dead of other maladies.

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