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   John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 01:31:57 JST John Carlos Baez

   On Wednesday, Trump and the Republican party unleashed a tidal wave of disease and death around the world.

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   “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

   The projects terminated include H.I.V. treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst-affected African countries and global efforts to wipe out polio.

   Here are some of the projects that The New York Times has confirmed have been canceled:

   A $131 million grant to UNICEF’s polio immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children.

   A $90 million contract with the company Chemonics for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would have protected 53 million people.

   A project run by FHI 360 that supported community health workers’ efforts to go door-to-door seeking malnourished children in Yemen. It recently found that one in five children was critically underweight because of the country’s civil war.

   And more....

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   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.vQRl.O0Le_31I0JYK

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     John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 01:31:54 JST John Carlos Baez

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     Not content with spreading disease and starvation that will kill hundreds of thousands worldwide, this week Trump and his henchmen did their best to destroy the National Weather Service.

     That's the US agency whose work underlies all weather forecasting in the US - stuff like predicting the paths of hurricanes, and so on.

     So, more death and destruction. And it's just starting. This will end only when we stop him. He is mad, don't you see? He will destroy us if we let him.

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     "NWS has fired meteorologists as a direct result of upper-level heads telling them to do so," said Ethan Clark, a meteorologist for the city of Raleigh and an intern for WRAL, in a post to X. "Let me be clear, people will die because of this. Absolutely insane... I have no words for it. I’ve spent all day I mean all day in meetings with both republicans and democrats fighting."

     UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain had a similarly grim assessment, in a post to Bluesky.

     "Despite widespread discussion to the contrary, the fact of the matter is that the private sector, as it presently exists, simply cannot quickly spin up to fill any void left by substantial dismantling of NOAA and/or the NWS," wrote Swain. "I work extensively with weather and climate scientists who work in the private sector — all of whom do good and important work that I greatly respect — yet even in the private sector there is near unanimous agreement that NOAA and NWS are indispensable."

     In fact, he noted, virtually all private-sector weather reporting right down to your local news meteorologist rely on data from these agencies and "could simply not exist" without them.

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     John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 01:31:55 JST John Carlos Baez

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     The dark litany of disaster continues! Someday, someone will count the hundreds of thousands of victims - the sick, the starved, the crippled, the dead - caused by ending these programs:

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     A project run by Helen Keller Intl in six countries in West Africa that last year provided more than 35 million people with the medicine to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis.

     A project in Nigeria providing 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with treatment for severe and acute malnutrition. The termination means 77 health facilities have completely stopped treating children with severe acute malnutrition, putting 60,000 children under the age of 5 at immediate risk of death.

     A project in Sudan that runs the only operational health clinics in one of the biggest areas of the Kordofan region, cutting off all health services.

     A project serving more than 144,000 people in Bangladesh that provided food for malnourished pregnant women and vitamin A to children.

     A program run by the aid agency PATH, called REACH Malaria, which protected more than 20 million people from the disease. It provided malaria drugs to children at the start of the rainy season in 10 countries in Africa.

     A project run by Plan International that provided drugs and other medical supplies, health care, treatment of malnutrition programming, and water and sanitation for 115,000 displaced or affected by the conflict in northern Ethiopia.

     More than $80 million for UNAIDS, the United Nations agency, which funded work to help countries improve H.I.V. treatment.

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     https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.vQRl.O0Le_31I0JYK

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     John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 01:31:56 JST John Carlos Baez

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     More life-saving missions that Trump and his evil minions nuked:

     All of the operating costs and 10 percent of the drug budget of the Global Drug Facility, the World Health Organization’s main supply channel for tuberculosis medications, which last year provided tuberculosis treatment to nearly three million people, including 300,000 children.

     H.I.V. care and treatment projects run by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation that were providing lifesaving medication to 350,000 people in Lesotho, Tanzania and Eswatini, including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women who were receiving care so that they would not transmit the virus to their babies at birth.

     A project in Uganda to trace contacts of people with Ebola, conduct surveillance and bury those who died from the virus.

     A contract to manage and distribute $34 million worth of medical supplies in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthlong H.I.V. treatments, 750,000 H.I.V. tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 antimalaria bed nets.

     Eighty-seven shelters that took care of 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa.

     A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that operates the only source of water for 250,000 people in camps for displaced people located in the center of the violent conflict in the east of the country.

     Pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal.

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     https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.vQRl.O0Le_31I0JYK

     Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 repeated this.