00:00Now, the Trump administration's sweeping cuts to U.S. foreign aid could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.
00:08According to a new study published in The Lancet, this includes over 4.5 million children under the age of 5, or around 700 child deaths a year.
00:18The research highlights the scale of the rollback, with over 80% of programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, already cancelled.
00:31It warned that the funding cuts risk halting and even reversing two decades of health progress in the world's most vulnerable communities.
00:40Based on data from 133 countries, the researchers estimated that USAID programs helped prevent 91 million deaths between 2001 and 2021.
00:53The U.S. by far is the world's largest humanitarian aid provider, operating in more than 60 countries.
01:00But that support has drastically shrunk since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.
01:06The study comes as world and business leaders gather in Spain this week for a once-in-a-decade UN conference, hoping to revive the better aid sector.
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