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International Business Times
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'Getting Scary': US Aid Cuts Undermine Global Fight Against TB

The funding cuts will increase TB rates by over 30% worldwide, says an internal USAID memo (Credit: AFP)

The Trump administration's sweeping foreign aid cuts will send tuberculosis cases and deaths soaring around the world, humanitarian workers have warned.

One told AFP that people are already dying from a lack of treatment in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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