Global support for vaccines for poor countries and thousands of other global health initiatives poised for extinction as Trump escalates random cuts

The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, and to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat malaria, one of the biggest killers globally.

Those decisions are included in a 281-page spreadsheet that the United States Agency for International Development sent to Congress [March 24] listing the foreign aid projects it plans to continue and to terminate.

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The documents provide a sweeping overview of the extraordinary scale of the administration’s retreat from a half-century-long effort to present the United States to the developing world as a compassionate ally and to lead the fight against infectious diseases that kill millions of people annually.

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In all, the administration has decided to continue 898 U.S.A.I.D. awards and to end 5,341 …. a massive reduction in the $40 billion that U.S.A.I.D. used to spend annually.