Fact Sheet

  • Without USAID funding and programs, hundreds of adults and children are dying each day from preventable causes. It will grow to thousands.

  • The total number of lives saved per year from the many forms of U.S, assistance is complicated to sum—but it is staggering to contemplate, even if the error rate is large. Researchers from the Center for Global Development estimate 3.3 million lives are saved annually from HIV/AIDS, vaccine-preventable illnesses,

  • TB, malaria, and emergency/humanitarian relief. That is 9,000 lives per day.

  • The U.S.-created PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) program has saved an astonishing 26 million lives since 2003, including and especially those of newborns. The medical journal The Lancet cites that if PEPFAR is gone, it could lead to 500,000 AIDS deaths among children alone by 2030. The U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will tell you that PEPFAR is still working, but meanwhile there is precious little staff left to run it, and the delivery infrastructure is in tatters.

  • Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases here and abroad. According to the World Health Organization, the USAID programs averted about 3.65 million deaths in the last year alone. Without USAID, there will be an estimated 30% increase in global infections.

  • USAID has historically been one of the largest buyers of U.S. grown crops, spending over $2 billion annually to provide food aid worldwide. The U.S. represents about one-third of global humanitarian funding. Lives lost by not preventing malnutrition and starvation are very difficult to estimate from year to year because of inconsistent circumstances like famine, natural catastrophes (earthquakes, floods), and war. One estimate for 2023 is that the US saved 549,000 lives by providing its share of aid.

  • By shutting down USAID, we risk causing an increase of 18 million cases of malaria around the world and as many as 166,000 additional deaths in the next decade.

  • An estimated increase of 200,000 children will be paralyzed by polio in the coming decade.