NYT: Tuberculosis Surges Due To Global USAID Freeze

The New York Times reports:

Mr. Modore has tuberculosis. He is 40, a tall man whose weight has dropped to 110 pounds. He has a wracking cough and sometimes vomits blood. He fears the disease will kill him and has been desperate to be on medication to treat it.

Mr. Modore is one of thousands of Kenyans, and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, with TB who have lost access to treatments and testing in the weeks since the Trump administration slashed foreign aid and withdrew funding for health programs around the globe.

The whole system of finding, diagnosing and treating tuberculosis — which kills more people worldwide than any other infectious disease — has collapsed in dozens of countries across Africa and Asia since President Trump ordered the aid freeze on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day.

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More fallout from the illegal decision to shutter USAID:

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally; 100,000s of sick patients can’t find tests or treatment, leading to spread of TB

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