The conclusions of the first scientific analysis of the impact that it may have the freezing of virtually all humanitarian aid from the United States to low- and middle-income countries are alarming: by 2030, deaths caused by the lack of access to diagnosis and treatment for diseases such as AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis are expected to increase, as well as problems related to malnutrition and urban sanitation. Specifically, it is estimated that there will be an excess of 14 million deaths, including 4.5 million children under the age of five, in the next four and a half years due to the dismantling of foreign aid and international cooperation undertaken this year by the Donald Trump administration.

The aggressive dismantling of the international aid agency USAID has not only unleashed chaos and fear among federal workers in Washington. With programs in more than 100 countries around the world, the effects of the foreign aid freeze and the agency's shutdown have reverberated to thousands of people. "We are seeing immediate repercussions on the ground. Vital health programs like PEPFAR [for treating HIV] have had to turn away patients, including pregnant women, because of confusion in the guidelines. Communications have been cut off with NGOs that we worked with on hunger programs, on which they depend." He denounced one of the agency's workers who spoke to ARA after being temporarily suspended from work last week, like thousands of her colleagues.