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https://prospect.org/2025/12/19/usaid-cuts-leave-syrians-brink-of-thirst/

"There’s no water, no garbage collection. We barely get food items, but we’ve reduced our meals to just one plate a day. Before, they pumped water for an hour a day, now we get just ten minutes, and we can’t drink it; it’s contaminated."

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/01/global-health-hiv-aids-funding-cuts-infections-prevention

"The Trump administration abruptly cut all overseas #aid spending in January, with only piecemeal restorations to #funding since then. Other countries, including the #UK, have announced their own cuts. It has been estimated that external #health #assistance over 2025 will be between 30% and 40% lower than it was in 2023."

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/01/bangladesh-rohingya-refugees-aid-health-funding-cuts-infants-malnutrition

"In Bangladesh, over a million people in the world’s largest #refugee camp depend on #aid – and #cuts mean new arrivals are not even given #shelter"

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/15/health-why-ghana-losing-nurses-emigration-who-medics

"An estimated 6,000 nurses left in 2024 for roles in countries including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia."

The nurses are - of course - free to do decide for themselves. But the situation becomes worse when this exodus happens on top of cuts to #aid

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/16/figures-us-funding-cuts-family-planning-clinics-shut-anti-rights

"These #funding #cuts have consequences #women giving birth without skilled #care, #people living with #HIV unable to access testing and #treatment to stay alive, and survivors of #violence being turned away from the only clinic in their area,” said Alvaro Bermejo, director general of IPPF, the world’s largest network for sexual and reproductive #health"

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/21/sweden-and-germany-slash-aid-budgets-to-focus-on-ukraine-and-defence-spending

C'mon #EU #Sweden #Germany #Norway #France - you can do better than the #US

Cuts to #aid and #immigration are the opposite of what is needed for #Africa #Asia

Don't back off from the good ideas of the last few decades.

#humanrights #justice #climatechange #climatecrisis #adaptation #migration #healthcare #food #water #sanitation #housing #education

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