More Than 11,000 Tuberculosis Deaths Since Trump Cuts

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2025/03/31/more-than-11000-tuberculosis-deaths-since-trump-cuts/

More Than 11,000 Tuberculosis Deaths Since Trump Cuts
March 31, 2025 at 6:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

CNN: “Already, more than 11,000 additional TB patients are estimated to have died in the two months since almost all USAID funding froze on January 24.”

“TB infections are also expected to increase by 28-32% globally this year as a result of the cuts.”

[Tickle]

1. What was cut out to

make them die? Can we put what was cut out and put it back?

[littlemissmartypants]

14. USAID. No. ...

It's 100% completely done according to the P2025 tracker.
https://www.project2025.observer/?agencies=USAID&sort=agency-desc
The full tracker:
https://www.project2025.observer/

The only foreign aid service that remains is whatever Samaritans Purse distributes.

That's why the USA isn't going to be able to help anyone outside the country anymore, like the earthquake victims, for example.

[littlemissmartypants]

21. I found this, too. It explains why better than I can. ...

Tuberculosis Program Impact Tracker
A recent USAID funding discontinuation has severely impacted critical TB programs across 26 high-burden countries. This disruption in funding threatens to reverse years of progress in TB prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The Stop TB Partnership coordinated a modeling analysis to estimate the impact of the funding discontinuation. Utilizing these results, our tracker highlights the estimated deaths resulting from this funding gap, emphasizing the urgent need for immediate action to mitigate its devastating impact on global health.

https://tb.impactcounter.com/

[Lovie777]

2. shithole musk republicans don't care................

greed is abundant with these asswipe so called Christians.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. As it slowly spreads by infected people on planes and ships throughout the world.

[BoRaGard]

3. "On the bright side, now we can have more tax cuts for the wealthy." - GOP

[Joinfortmill]

4. This Administration is killing people

I hope to one day see them charged with Crimes Against Humanity.

[dchill]

10. The Republican party has become a ground-up, grassroots...

...death cult. There are no "conservative values" that justify what their administration is doing. Mass Murder R Us.

[mwb970]

13. I disagree strongly with every single thing they say and do.

[dchill]

16. Yeah, me too - but how long until THAT becomes illegal?

[Meowmee]

24. Psycho murdered over 1 million Americans with covid

Zero charges and zero accountability.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. And spreading

[Botany]

6. These deaths are not accidents but the goals of an inhuman and illegal administration that was installed by a coup ....

and a corrupt election which was manipulated by the likes
of Musk, the GRU, tech bros, and Christo Fascist racist/sexist
Republicans. Stop the N I H's work on the C-19 virus and its evolution,
close down NOAA's climate lab on Mt. Mauna Loa that
looks @ atmospheric CO 2 levels, steal and send to Putin/Russia the
Information on our intelligence communities, and now withholding funds
for tuberculosis and you will kill people.

See Stephen "dead eyes" Miller.

[dchill]

18. "They'll never have to vote again."

[BonnieJW]

7. These monsters don't realize

Everything is global now. If there is an uncontained TB outbreak in another country, there will be one here.

[Botany]

8. 14 million is the real # of deaths from C-19 worldwide

8 million diagnosed, 4 + million undiagnosed, and @ least
2 million from other diseases and medical problems that
could not be treated because the system was overwhelmed
with Covid cases.

This is the planned execution of people by the likes of
Stephen Miller, Musk, RFK Jr and Trump. They know
TB kills and vaccines work.

[The Madcap]

26. They believe they will escape blame

just because they didn't physically pull the trigger.

[raccoon]

15. Yall read about multi-drug resistant TB. It will scare you.

[dchill]

17. That's their intention. IMO.

[littlemissmartypants]

22. They most certainly do, but they think money will save them. ...

Wait until they realize all the science they are killing is something that they should have saved.

Tuberculosis Program Impact Tracker
A recent USAID funding discontinuation has severely impacted critical TB programs across 26 high-burden countries. This disruption in funding threatens to reverse years of progress in TB prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The Stop TB Partnership coordinated a modeling analysis to estimate the impact of the funding discontinuation. Utilizing these results, our tracker highlights the estimated deaths resulting from this funding gap, emphasizing the urgent need for immediate action to mitigate its devastating impact on global health.
https://tb.impactcounter.com/

[wishstar]

9. Sad especially as we were on track to virtually eliminate TB by 2030

"Health workers based in Cambodia, Pakistan, Nigeria, South Africa and Eswatini told CNN the biggest cuts to their programs were mostly in active case-finding, which allows for earlier diagnosis to stem the spread of disease, and in community outreach.

One such USAID-funded program in Cambodia, run by local HIV and TB organization KHANA, had screened more than 780,000 people for TB in remote areas, traced more than 16,000 close contacts of TB patients and supported more than 800 patients with multi-drug-resistant TB during the past five years, according to its executive director, Choub Sok Chamreun.

All that work has now stopped. As a result, the number of new TB cases reported in the region has dropped from about 650-850 per month to just 250 in February, meaning that hundreds are going undiagnosed and without care, Chamreun told CNN.

“This means that people don’t come to services. It means that the infection continues to spread over the community … it means that the aim to end TB by 2030 is impossible,” he said, referencing the UN’s goal to largely eliminate the disease by the end of the decade."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/health/tuberculosis-impact-usaid-funding-intl-scli/index.html

Article explains how much of our assistance that ended was in form of grants to fund local organizations in many countries to provide TB testing and treatment as well as laboratory research.

[DallasNE]

11. Time To Brush Off The Excess Deaths Counter For The Next Trump Debacle. n/t

[mwb970]

12. He's a killer.

And he likes it. Pure evil.

[Botany]

20. And so is Musk too

You see that the USAID was helping Black People
in Africa and Musk sees them as "the enemy" going
back to his days as an Afrikaner in S. Africa.

Pure Evil is right.

[central scrutinizer]

23. 30 percent increase?

That means cases will double every two and a half years if it continues. Exponential growth

[Meowmee]

25. Horrific

There will be more here as well partly due to travel. But the fascist idiots don’t care.