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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Trump’s US aid cuts could cause more than two million extra TB deaths in five years, study warns

America’s foreign aid freeze could cause more than two million additional deaths from tuberculosis across the next five years, scientists have warned.

The aid cuts by Donald Trump’s administration have already significantly impacted global health programmes and could result in an extra 2.2 million deaths from TB over the next half-decade, according to the research published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health.

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