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These medications and supplies are among those life-saving HIV and malaria commodities that the administration said would continue to reach the most vulnerable places around the world -- commodities for more than 40 countries.

A look at severe malaria meds impacted 7/

By the end of June, shipments worth nearly $76 million were not delivered, including the majority of medication needed to combat severe malaria.

An additional $63 million worth were delivered late to the warehouses per USAID standards -- on average by 41 days. 6/

Suza's medication was paused when it was already in Congo.

But more than 1600 other orders worth more than $190 million were stuck before they got there -- at manufacturers, in transit or stuck in customs -- at the time of the stop work order. 5/

So when the doctor asked, and he did ask, no medication was provided.

Suza's dad went to three different hospitals trying to find what she needed to make her well.

She died just days after she got sick. 4/

The medication was in the nearby local warehouse. But it never arrived.

That's because, despite Rubio's blanket waiver for life-saving aid, each USAID program needed an individual waiver. The program that delivered the malaria medications in Congo did not get one for months. 3/

Suza, a girl who loved frilly dresses, got sick with malaria in February. First a cough, then a fever. Then she couldn’t breathe. But the local clinic near her house ran out of the severe malaria medication she needed in January.

No refills came. 📷 Arlette Bashizi 2/

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