The dismantling of USAID has stripped Nepal of maternal nutrition programs, birthing center supplies, and community health workers, leaving pregnant women without prenatal care and driving child wasting in one province from 7.4% to 12.3%, the AP reports.

Hospital admissions for severe malnutrition in Somali displacement camps have surged 83% over last year, with 47% of children in Baidoa's camps found malnourished and more than 100 children dying at Doctors Without Borders' hospital there in the first half of 2026, the Washington Post reports. The Trump administration has cut virtually all aid to Somalia.

A survey of nearly 3,800 former USAID staff finds that only 40% have found full-time work since the agency's dismantling while 81% report stress-related physical symptoms such as headaches and panic attacks, Government Executive reports.

The United States joined Russia and six other countries in voting against the UN's new Political Declaration on AIDS. Writing in The Conversation, McGill political scientist Yolaine Frossard de Saugy argues the vote signals that U.S. support for the global AIDS response is now entirely conditional on political agenda.

The U.S. slashed its humanitarian aid to Yemen by $107 million in 2025 after having funded half of the international response plan the year before, deepening the ongoing crisis. Writing for Lawfare, the authors argue that the funding collapse compounds a war economy in which rival Houthi and Internationally Recognized Government authorities run parallel health systems and treat aid as patronage.

After Marco Rubio told Congress that "no children are dying on my watch" and Elon Musk claimed critics could not name a single victim of the USAID shutdown, NPR documented the deaths of three children in Nigeria and Kenya whose parents and health workers say lost access to previously free USAID-funded medication and community outreach.

One year after the State Department layoffs, former officials say the loss of expertise is now visible in the U.S. response to the Central Africa Ebola outbreak and in faltering Iran war diplomacy, Government Executive reports. The State Department disputes that the reductions have hurt its operational capacity.

In an interview with David Remnick, former USAID global health leader Atul Gawande estimates that the agency's dismantling by DOGE has already caused roughly 700,000 deaths.

Christianity Today visits four rural mission hospitals in East Africa to find that while the U.S. still funds antiretroviral drugs through PEPFAR, the "America First" strategy has stripped out nearly everything else — home visits, testing, health worker salaries, and community support groups.

A government screening of over one million Nepali children found acute malnutrition rising from 6.6% to 7.8% nationally (12.3% in Madhesh Province) since USAID ended its child nutrition funding in the country roughly 14 months ago. The sudden halt of a U.S.-funded program has broken down community outreach and treatment referral systems built over decades, threatening the 72% decline in under-five death rates Nepal achieved between 1996 and 2022.

With USAID once responsible for over half of annual orders of ready-to-use therapeutic food, its dismantling has left U.S. producers with orders reduced to a trickle as the Trump administration shifts toward a "humanitarian trade" model under the State Department's new, less funded Bureau of Disaster and Human Response, NPR reports. 

After the Trump administration's foreign aid cuts shuttered clinics and severed access to HIV medication across Zambia, NPR reports that children are increasingly being orphaned as their parents die of AIDS — reviving the child-headed households that defined the epidemic before U.S. programs like PEPFAR helped bring it under control.

A USAID inspector general report finds that roughly $8 million worth of taxpayer-funded contraceptives bound for low-income African nations has spoiled in a Belgian warehouse after the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID, The Hill reports.

El País travels to Nairobi to meet women left without contraception after the dismantling of USAID stranded $9.7 million in pills, IUDs, condoms, and implants in Belgian warehouses facing destruction or expiration, with public clinics that relied on USAID for their supplies now recording months of zero stock and post-abortion care cases up 50%. An estimated 108,000 Kenyan women will lose implant access this year.

Nicholas Kristof argues that despite the Trump administration's attempts to recast its foreign aid record, the 71% cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025 remains the administration's most lethal policy. 

The Trump administration plans to redirect $2 billion in congressionally appropriated global health funding — earmarked for programs tackling malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, and more — to cover the legal costs, pending invoices, and logistics of shutting down USAID, CNN reports.

Ghana has rejected a proposed $109 million U.S. health deal after officials found the data-sharing provisions would have granted U.S. entities sweeping access to sensitive national health records without adequate safeguards, the AP reports.

The Trump administration has moved to systematically eliminate U.S. support for international family planning, once the world's largest, covering over 40% of global donor funding, shuttering clinics, firing health workers, and creating massive contraceptive shortages. The President’s proposed FY2027 budget explicitly targets birth control funding for elimination, NPR reports.

The dismantling of USAID and the elimination of U.S. family planning funding have shuttered clinics, fired health workers, and caused contraceptive shortages across 41 recipient countries driving a surge in unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and maternal deaths.