U.S. cuts disrupted HIV treatment continuity, leaving patients vulnerable. Now the U.K.’s proposed reductions threaten to deepen those losses, underscoring how global health systems built over decades can unravel quickly when major donors step back simultaneously.

The investigation links the U.S. retreat to failures across disease surveillance, supply chains, and basic health services. The estimated death toll highlights how dismantling USAID’s global health infrastructure weakens pandemic preparedness and undercuts long-standing U.S. commitments abroad, The New Yorker reports.

In northern Uganda, the U.S. canceled a $15 million program that would have helped refugees start small businesses. Thousands of South Sudanese families have been left with no path to self-reliance beyond emergency aid.

In Madagascar, the loss of a USAID-funded health program has left remote communities without care, driving up maternal deaths, malaria, and disease outbreaks.

Syrian families who once counted on U.S.-funded cash and food assistance are now facing hunger and eviction as humanitarian support dries up, Foreign Policy reports.

Somalia’s health system is collapsing under the weight of U.S. withdrawal. Clinics once supported by American aid are now turning away malnourished children.

U.S. funding cuts have derailed once-successful HIV programs in Lesotho, the AP reports. The move has forced clinics to scale back services and threatened hard-won gains in treatment and prevention

The decline of U.S. foreign aid could open space for smarter, locally led models, argues former USAID administrator Raj Shah in this opinion for The New York Times.

Across Africa, The Washington Post maps where U.S. aid cuts are being felt most—from shuttered health clinics to food shortages. The fallout spans dozens of countries

The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is deteriorating rapidly. The Associated Press reports starvation and death in a country that once counted the U.S. as its largest humanitarian donor.

Babies are dying in Cameroon after malaria programs lost U.S. backing. Health officials say the cuts have crippled prevention efforts.

In Kenya’s Turkana County, one in three children screened by Save the Children are acutely malnourished amid overlapping impacts of U.S. and U.K. aid cuts, drought, and climate shocks.

Five-year-old Suza Kenyaba died of malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo after U.S.-funded medication sat in a regional warehouse due to a suspension of foreign aid. The Washington Post reports that across dozens of countries, USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV supplies were late or never arrived.

U.S. aid cuts have forced girls out of school and left women facing rising hunger, early marriage, and health risks in Uganda’s Rwamwanja refugee settlement, Nicholas Kristof writes.

In Yemen, The Guardian traces a mother’s death to a single U.S. aid decision. The story captures how bureaucracy in Washington can reverberate thousands of miles away.

In northeast Nigeria, the termination of a U.S.-funded nutrition program left tens of thousands of children without lifesaving food. One mother’s infant died days after the cut and aid agencies warn that malnutrition and child deaths are rising across Borno state

In Zambia, people living with HIV lost access to lifesaving antiretroviral drugs after U.S. aid was cut. Months later, clinics remain understocked and patients are struggling to survive without treatment.

America’s retreat from global disaster response has seen humanitarian crises deepen, Vox reports. Countries like Afghanistan and Sudan have struggled to fill the gap once covered by U.S. emergency aid.