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The Impact of Foreign
Aid Cuts: Care in Crisis

One year after foreign aid was dismantled, clinics are closing and lifesaving services are being scaled back. Communities that depend on care are being left behind. Donate to ensure health care continues.

Stand for Health Care Under Threat

One year after foreign aid was dismantled, a manufactured global health crisis continues to unfold. Clinics around the world are closing, services are being drastically scaled back, and critical programs for maternal health, HIV, tuberculosis, and primary care are disappearing, leaving communities without access to lifesaving care.

We cannot allow people’s survival to be determined by decisions made far from their homes. While government funding has been withdrawn, our commitment to patients has not. With your support, Partners In Health can continue delivering health care to communities otherwise abandoned by federal aid.

Your commitment is an act of defiance against this injustice. Your generosity helps keep clinics open, health workers on the front lines, and patients connected to care when systems fail. Please stand with us and help ensure health care continues.

“The aspiration to improve the lives of those living in extreme poverty through better public health, public education, and public works by definition requires public-sector capacity.”

- Dr. Paul Farmer

A Turning Point for Global Health

This assault on global health funding began on this administration’s first day in office. The rapid, uncoordinated withdrawal of aid has already dismantled USAID and continues to threaten lifesaving programs like PEPFAR and the Global Fund—driving a global collapse of care and putting decades of progress at risk. This is not a crisis confined to one country. It is a global turning point. Without equitable access to treatment, millions of people face preventable deaths.

Even as government funding freezes, Partners In Health teams across 11 sites continue delivering lifesaving health care every day, often serving as critical supports for entire health systems. Just last year, your generosity made possible: 

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2.9 Million Outpatient visits across our sites to prevent, diagnose, and treat illness
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152,430 Prenatal care visits and 13,160 safe cesarean deliveries
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795,200 Home visits by community health workers to improve access to care

This is what protecting access to care makes possible—even as sudden aid cuts devastate health systems in Malawi, Lesotho, Haiti, Peru, Sierra Leone, and beyond. Make a donation to stand with us to keep care going.

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Janki Moneni (right) during his final review at Quthing Hospital with Dr. Stephanie Mpinda (PIH) (middle), after spending over six months in ICU. (Justice Kalebe / PIH)

The Human Cost of Foreign Aid Cuts

Over this past year, our teams around the world have documented examples of patients suffering and dying without access to medication or professional care as funding was pulled overnight. And we have to assume that for each story we hear, there are countless more that remain untold and unheard.

A patient in Lesotho traveled through challenging terrain to nine clinics searching for someone, anyone, to help him as he suffered from tuberculosis. Fortunately, he made it to a PIH-supported clinic where he was finally able to receive treatment and support.

But for every patient who makes it to care, there are many more who never reach a second clinic—let alone a ninth. This is the reality of foreign aid cuts: survival becomes a matter of distance, chance, and endurance—and without urgent support, people will die. Your donation will help to keep clinics open and ensure patients can reach lifesaving care.

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