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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rachel Schraer

Trump’s cuts to contraception will kill ‘tens of thousands’ of women

More than 8,000 women and girls are believed to have died from complications during pregnancy or birth as a result of Donald Trump freezing US aid funding after returning to the White House, a toll which could become 34,000 by the end of the year, researchers have warned.

Contraceptive services are among the programmes hit by billions of dollars of US aid cuts, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

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