NYT Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
NYT Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
Article summary:
As the world’s richest men slash American aid for the world’s poorest children, they insist that all is well.
“No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Elon Musk said. “No one.”
That is not true. In South Sudan, one of the world’s poorest countries, the efforts by Musk and President Trump are already leading children to die.
An estimated 1,650,000 people could die within a year without American foreign aid for H.I.V. prevention and treatment.