Posted on 03/16/2025 3:48:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When Kajol contracted tuberculosis in January, USAID kept her alive. Now she and her family are in danger again after the Trump administration ordered most US aid spending to end.
"You ask people on the street, they will say yeah, it's the US, they are the ones that are keeping it [tuberculosis] in control," said a director of a USAID project in Bangladesh.
"Bangladesh was USAID's largest programme in Asia," says Asif Saleh, executive director of the non-profit BRAC organisation. "In terms of its impact, particularly in the healthcare sector, it has been massive.
In 2024, Bangladesh received $500m in foreign assistance. This year, that amount has cratered to $71m. To put that number into context, in the three-year period from 2021-2023, USAID committed an average of $83m annually in Bangladesh for health initiatives alone, including combating TB.
In a document seen by the BBC, 113 programmes that were funded directly by the USAID office in Bangladesh have stopped. The list does not include the myriad programmes that are funded directly by US agencies in Washington.
"The NGO sector [In Bangladesh] employs 500,000 people at least," says Mr Saleh. "It's huge. Thousands and thousands of jobs are going to be eliminated."
It's not just the United States that is moving away from foreign aid. The UK has announced cuts to its foreign assistance programmes, as has Switzerland. It is likely that other countries may follow suit. It's a sobering reality for Bangladesh.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Amazing. People addicted to free money complain when the free money gets cut off.
A non-government organization that essentially cannot exist without government funding is an oxymoron.
Amazing. Steal billions. Yet, spend a few million on a semi-legit cause to justify the existence of the whole rotten scheme and the media lap it up like its nectar. Hooked to the gills.
USAID EMPLOYS 500,000 in BANGLADESH???? OMG!!!~ How many are TRANNIES DOING DRAF SHOWS??
Liberal math. Ignore the corrupt 90% that USAID does; look at these pennies they spend over here.
LOL!! The UK and SWITZERLAND are moving away from THEIR AID PROGRAMS!!
It’s OK. The BBC will pick up the slack.
Lies, lies and more lies to justify the thievery. WHAT ABOUT THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTROL DISEASE? And, what are the Pakistanis doibg to stop inbreeding???
Trump’s cuts came
Hat tip it’s a America first deal.
I am sure all the billionaires (Gates, Soros, Zuckerberg, Bezos) that spend money on election rigging can make up the difference.
And like clockwork here comes the “journalistic“ pity parties
Tough toenails
OMG the cover story to cover up the gazillions in grif was legitimate? It's almost as though they learned this from the CIA - oops, according Mike Benz that is exactly where they learned this. But why would a crack intelligence organization like the CIA run a scam for the personal gain of a bunch of politicians and the families of other deep-state influencers? What am I missing here?
Nice little coup we engineered there some months ago, wasn’t it? No surprise we’ve spent so much there. What percent was spent on helping those suffering from TB?
What? Our our media didn’t tell us about the dandy little coup that overthrew the democratically elected leader of Bangladesh? Or the ensuing violence against Hindus and Christians? How they burned their villages and killed over 500? Hmm. That’s funny.
So let me get this right...they have a problem. They have been shown the solution. It was all done as a gift. Now it’s wrong to expect them to manage & pay for it themselves? They have an economy right? They care about their population right?
I mean, unless one of those is ‘no’...I don’t see why it is our problem anymore.
Trust the BBC to take such an angle too.
This is SEP, not MP.
That, for the acronymically-challenged, is “Someone Else’s Problem” not “My Problem.”
Tragic, yes, but it all is, isn’t it? Like children going hungry in America or homeless veterans. But I don’t see the country of Bumf**kistan or wherever this article points to taxing its citizens to send money to help THOSE pathetically and perpetually poor but deserving of charity citizens of a country (the USA) half a world away.
Our country’s leadership oath of office is to its citizens and its Constitution (rule of law), NOT to other countries, other people. This is a foundational principle of MAGA.
But help for the poor? This is what Christian missionary aid programs are for - and Muslim ones (I’ll finish typing when you are done laughing at that) - NOT what I and millions of other Americans work and pay upwards of 95% of our income into taxes for.
Yes, 95%. Federal, state, local, gas, service, the built-in taxes for finished goods including federal FICA, healthcare and other mandated taxes on business - dig into it, we are as enslaved as any subsaharan African imported in the 18th century as are our children to the endless transgeneration tax debt.
Enough.
Oh, and a by the way: the BBC was reportedly a recipient of USAID money (our tax dollars) to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
THIS is how far the country formerly known as England has sunk - that it relies on a former ally/frenemy to subsidize its propaganda outlets.
Gee...maybe Bangladesh might want to consider saving their own people and not depend on foreign governments to do it for them.
“The UK has announced cuts to its foreign assistance programmes, as has Switzerland.”
But somehow our cuts are more egregious?
why the EFF is the USA giving money to Bangladesh to control their healthcare?
Flood ‘em with birth control!
What the Beeb left out...
https://www.bbc.com/mediaaction/press-release/4-feb-25
Guess who got some of our tax money...
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