A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient in Hyderabad, India, in 2018.
Posted on 03/09/2025 6:11:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Health authorities are calling attention to a looming consequence of the Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development: the risk of a global surge in tuberculosis cases and deaths.
The World Health Organization warned this week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.
“Without immediate action, hard-won progress in the fight against TB is at risk,” Dr. Tereza Kasaeva, director of the WHO’s Global Programme on TB and Lung Health, said in a statement Wednesday.
Until recently, USAID provided about a quarter of the international donor funding for tuberculosis services in other countries — up to $250 million annually, according to the WHO. The agency operated tuberculosis programs in 24 countries.
The WHO said that because of the U.S. funding cuts, drug supply chains in other countries are “breaking down,” laboratory services are “severely disrupted” and surveillance systems are “collapsing,” making it difficult to identify, monitor and treat tuberculosis cases. Some research trials have been halted, as well.
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A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient in Hyderabad, India, in 2018.
Why is the US funding 25% of the world’s health?
The planet’s healthcare is not a US responsibility.
Keep people from other countries out of the US, then it won’t spread.
Looks like WHO’S covid notvax might be contributing too.
I will ask a different question. Can TB be controlled in India?
The answer is it cannot. American TB money spent in India is pissing in the ocean
Imagine how much WHO skims off the top of USAID. No sympathy.
TB is one critical reason we should have stopped illegal aliens. They carry it.
Veneral diseases about to explode.
The WHO never advocated securing borders from those who bring in TB. They WHO advocated for illegal aliens to be given a free pass into every country. Screw the WHO!
This can’t possibly be a problem. If it was, would the Biden administration have brought unscreened, unvaxed illegal aliens into the US and dumped their children in the public schools? Preposterous!
Looks to me,without America in the mix ,the whole world will go to hell. Oh well,bye.
All the left has is lies and scare tactics to fight MAGA. Fewer and fewer people are buying it.
And where is the proof that any USAID money supposedly targeting tuberculosis actually went to fight tuberculosis?
Everything the rats have touched since the 60’s has been a sham and it’s all about to be exposed.
WHO (crooked grifting organization)
Try appealing to other nations. America is sucked dry!
This nation is in a struggle to survive and with God and
President Trump’s continued success we will!
Even after success...and it will come in due time, no more Uncle Sucker. Many Democrats and their ilk will not make it and neither will the slimy RINOs.
If WHO is so afraid, try to demand Ursula von der Leyen to increase their contributions.
Who?
Keep digging, morons.
We kill 70 million babies and worry about people in India dying.
This “warning” from the WHO sounds more like a threat to me.
What’s the next plandemic we should expect now?
TB walked back into this country across the southern border, with the complicit and explicit approval and support of the liberals. Ship the do-gooders to the source countries and let them solve the problem there. And don’t let them back into our country without a thorough medical exam.
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