Pregnant women and newborns in rural Nepal began dying again after US foreign aid cuts shut down maternal health programmes that had helped keep mothers and babies alive, according to an Associated Press report.
Kabita Mukhiya, a young mother in Nepal's Rautahat district, spent weeks in pain while pregnant with her fourth child. Aid workers who once visited villages to check on pregnant women had stopped coming after US funding cuts shuttered a programme focused on maternal and newborn health.
