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Babies' deaths in Cameroon show how US aid cuts curtail malaria fight
By Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Robbie Corey-Boulet and Jennifer Rigby
Thu, October 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM GMT+2
BOGO, Cameroon (Reuters) -Nine-month-old baby Mohamat burned with fever for three days before his family took him to the closest health centre in northern Cameroon, but it was too late. He died of malaria that day.
Mohamat's death was part of a spike this year in malaria fatalities that local health officials attribute to foreign aid cuts by the United States.
Before the cuts, Mohamat might have been diagnosed earlier by one of more than 2,000 U.S.-funded community health workers who would travel over rough dirt roads to reach the region's remotest villages.
And at the health centre, he might have been treated with injectable artesunate, a life-saving drug for severe malaria paid for by U.S. funds that is now in short supply. But the centre had none to give out...
The Trump administration says it is reforming foreign aid that did not align with its "America First" agenda and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said repeatedly that no-one has died as a result of the cuts....
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