A new study is predicting tens of millions of additional deaths around the world if the Trump administration completely pulls funding for disease programs overseas.
The study, not finished nor peer-reviewed, was published as part of a project called Preprints with The Lancet and reported by Rolling Stone. It models the end of some $13 billion in funding for health programs in developing countries, and says that by 2040 more than 15 million additional people could die from HIV/AIDS, 2 million more from tuberculosis and almost 8 million from other diseases.
The study also points at between 40 and 55 millions unplanned pregnancies and 16 million "unsafe abortions." The authors of the study warn that this scenario could reverse decades of progress and send levels of deaths and disease to figures not seen in over 25 years.
France 24 reported last week that the withdrawal of funding is already affecting African health care systems, with malaria cases expected to to soar. Malnutrition clinics have closed too and that "children walking miles to reach care in South Sudan for cholera care are dying along the way."
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