The U.S. aid cuts contributed to a 24% year-on-year increase in skin diseases such as scabies, affecting about half a million people in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh as of November 2025.
Date: 11/25
Region: South Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Topic: Health, Refugees & Displacement
Policy Lens: Migration & Mobility
Entry Type: Secondary Effect
Additional Context: This information was compiled as part of Refugee International's issue brief, "A Generational Collapse: Tracking the Toll of Trump’s Humanitarian Aid Cuts." The analysis draws on publicly reported humanitarian impact data, their own field reporting, and reporting from refugee-led organizations and community-based NGOs in multiple crisis-affected countries. It is not an exhaustive catalog of all impacts. This information was described in UNICEF's November 2025 readout of Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom's visit to Cox's Bazar.
Devex Researcher Note: Though this data is included in Refugee International's analysis as directly correlated to U.S. aid cuts under the Trump administration, the nature of U.N. financing makes it difficult to parse out exactly which funding lines comes from the U.S. as compared to other donors in camp programming. That being said, terminations and freezes of U.S. funded programs included water, sanitation, and hygiene initiatives that would have mitigated the threat of these diseases.
Source: Refugees International

