Laura Glastra
glastra.bsky.social
Laura Glastra
@glastra.bsky.social
Oceanography PhD candidate at URI GSO
Reposted by Laura Glastra
Human impact of USAID reductions, per year
Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause
* up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths
* 200k children paralyzed with polio
* 1m children not treated for malnutrition
* 28k new cases of infectious disease
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM