[BigThief]

Originally Posted by The Fonz

I’m center-right. These MAGA politicians are just pure hateful scum, and steering the world toward a scary place, where a lot of innocent civilians are going to die.

Originally Posted by Gordon Bombay

Who's going to die and how?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-...ries/104937326

How will Trump's USAID freeze be felt around the world?

Experts have warned Trump's move to freeze USAID's funding, which is currently being challenged in the courts affects more than 50 countries, including 26 of the poorest nations in the world, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda.

Affected programs include polio prevention, treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS, and fighting infectious disease such as cholera, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa.

Trump's freeze has also disrupted USAID's global medical supply chain, as hundreds of millions of dollars of life-saving medical supplies are stranded in warehouses and on ships around the world, at risk of damage, expiry or even theft, according to a lawsuit filed by USAID contractors last week.

The three-month freeze includes all work under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which fights AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

The program, which was founded in 2003, has saved more than 26 million lives worldwide by investing in HIV prevention and treatment in 55 countries, according to UNAIDS.

World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the freeze to PEPFAR had triggered an "immediate stop to HIV treatment, testing and prevention services" around the world.

HIV patients in Africa found locked doors at clinics.

UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima fears the world could see more than 6 million AIDS-related deaths in the next five years, as well as millions more HIV infections.

That's just one portion of one program.