CITATION: Legitimate expectations and the abrupt cessation of US aid: a human rights issue?
Beyrer, Chris
The Lancet, Volume 407, Issue 10523, 9 - 11
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1016%2FS0140-6736...
'On Human Rights Day on Dec 10, it is necessary to ask if the kind of global unilateral act relating to USAID by a major donor is a violation of human rights...
'Projections indicate the defunding of USAID could amount to 6–19 million deaths over the coming 10 years. This would be an immense human toll exceeding many past documented crimes against humanity...
'Decision makers must be held accountable and the false claim that “no one has died due to these funding cuts”, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in May, 2025,13 needs to be challenged, including through human rights processes...
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org