“2 million dead by the end of the year”: Ex-USAID chief says aid cuts will kill starving children

Following the closure of the US Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, those who see the American Development Agency’s work fighting to restore major programs, such as those that reduce the hunger of children, with a willingness to affect discounts all over the world.

It was one of the most prominent programs since Musk’s Musk of Usaid was a program that provides children with malnutrition with a diet based on pepper -called Plumping Nut aimed at helping to save children who cannot eat normal safely. This program was first reduced by Trump and his billionaire partner before returning it after General pressure.

Andrew Natssseos, a former US Agency for International Development, told President George W. Bush’s management that there are countless programs such as this and that the agency’s destruction will lead to famine, collective immigration and suffering unless some of these programs are restored.

“We will see collective hunger in many countries,” Natssseos said. “I hope that does not happen, but the evidence is that the international system is now collapsing, other donors do not reduce their budgets. Once the US Agency for International Development is closed, many other donors said,” You know, we will close us too. “They follow the leader.”

Some countries that follow the United States in cutting out foreign aid include the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France and Belgium. Jean Van Witt, President of the Belgian Development Agency ENABEL, described the “Snow Ball effect” on Euronews Health.

“Something we have not seen before, and I think it is in the history of international cooperation, it is a huge cut, not from one donor, but from multiple,” Van Witr said.

Earlier this month, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio confirmed that after a six-week period, 83 % of the US Agency for International Development-despite the license of Congress-was reduced and that the remaining programs will be managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the fiscal year 2023, USAID Almost 44 billion dollars to help.

In a statement, Rubio Musk thanked, “Our diligent employees who worked for a very long hours to achieve this historical reform and history.”

The White House had previously claimed that the agency was review In 2024 and 2023, it was widespread with fraud and ill -treatment, while he also claims to be “wake up”, confirming that the US International Development Agency had funded Colombia.Sexual Opera“And Peruvian”Sexual comic book“The White House has not made any evidence of these claims, and since then it was exposed.

The agency’s unilateral closure was challenged in the court, where a federal judge said that Trump has exceeded his authority by closing the agency imposed by Congress, although the judge’s order did not force officials to revive the canceled contracts.

Besides food aid, the agency provided assistance to projects such as containing the spread of Ebola, clearing the ground mines and providing artificial limbs to the injured soldiers in Ukraine. The Emergency Plan for the President of the United States Agency for AIDS was also one of the largest global HIV and AIDS programs, with operations in more than 50 countries, and about 26 million people have been credited since its establishment in 2003.

since then Effective closed. This and the abolition of food aid threatens the lives of millions, the critics say.

Natssseos said that without the intervention of the American Agency for International Development, it is expected that at least two million people at the end of the year will see a set of famine and disease, noting that the programs that provide a mixture of soybeans, a food component created to help treat children with malnutrition; It has been used recently to help treat children in places such as Niger and Malawi It aims specifically to help children who are at risk of death if they are given a lot of food very quickly, and they are given up to 20 times a day in small parts.

Rachel Betty Ridel, government professor at Cornell and Director of the University Center for World Democracy, The salon told that these types of short -term interventions in response to acute humanitarian crises are exactly the type of thing that was built for the US International Development Agency. She said that, in the absence of American aid, she expects famines in places like Congo quickly in places like Sudan. She also said that the residents remember the help long after the crisis has ended.

“When the stents are provided, these are immediate and timely interventions that respond to a severe crisis, but they have long -term traces in the long term in thinking about those who have an effect with the population,” Ridel said. “The goal of these types of programs is that it is a quick response and that it moves the site where the crisis is determined. For this reason, the experience of the American Agency for International Development is very important and the amount of the dollar is very small to invest in the long term.”

Oral salts are another program presented by Natsios as an example, saying that they provide an endless life around the world at a relatively low cost of the United States.

“Refugee and homeless camps have orally, because many children who die in starvation die from diarrhea. This is the largest killer.” So we use orally heavenly salts that mix with clean water, and if they give it to the child, it prevents the child from shock.

Although it is not known that the number of salts saved by the oral salts that completely saved them, they are attributed to them that they are part of the cause of the death of diarrhea diseases Decline In the past twenty years of the twentieth century, from 4.8 million in 1980 to 1.2 million in 2000, according to condition Posted in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition.

Although the cutting of food will have one of the most urgent effects, Ridel said that ending the infectious disease monitoring programs for the United States for International Development in places such as Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have the most dangerous long -term consequences in the world.

Ridel explained that the American Agency for International Development played an important role in monitoring and containing the outbreak of the Ebola virus and the Marburg virus in these countries and others. Along with local public health programs, she says the efforts made to contain these outbreaks were very effective.

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Regardless of food interventions, Natsios said that there are other general health interventions, as soon as the United States and other countries are available, which saved an endless life, such as measles vaccinations and other common childhood diseases.

“There are five childhood diseases, all children are supposed to be immunized from less than five diseases, because children die first in famine, then pregnant women and mothers who are fourth.”

Even interventions such as sending a condom and other contraceptives to places like Afghanistan have helped save the lives of women, who usually die in a famine. Natssseos said that the intervention was managed through the health centers established by the United States during its occupation of the country and that he would also send help if he was in office, despite the fact that help was. Mockery by Conservatives.

“The reason is that many pregnant women will die by the end of the year, because there is a famine that spreads throughout the country and that a woman suffers from acute malnutrition, usually died because she feeds two people, and the child who carries them and themselves,” said Natsius.

Natisos said that the effect of musk and Trump’s efforts to reduce the United States Agency for International Development will exceed millions of people who are expected to die because of starvation. One example is in the fight against new viruses and epidemics. Immigration is another issue that is expected to be affected by the decline in aid. Specifically, Natsios said that it is expected that the decline in aid will exacerbate the continuous forced immigration crisis, which he says is the worst since World War II.

“Eight or 10 years have been built for now; it is more worse and worse. The same thing happened, by the way, when the Cold War ended, there was the same type of crisis, but not bad like this. This is worse, now.