Already, "about three million people" in the country, which has 45 million inhabitants, have lost their access to healthcare since the USA began drastically reducing international aid when Donald Trump took office as president in January. This is according to WHO's Afghanistan chief Edwin Ceniza Salvador. And as more clinics are closed due to lack of funds during the year, an additional "two to three million" are expected to be affected.
When the financing stopped, other donors clearly tried to step in. But it's about a significant shortfall without the US money, says Salvador in an interview with the news agency AFP.
Trump's administration has cut over 80 percent of the global humanitarian aid that went through the aid agency USAID. According to AFP, this means that the humanitarian aid in the world has suddenly been reduced by a third.
