The United States spends hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign aid approved by Congress each year, including spending by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department and other programs. It was handed out $72 billion Total for 2023.
That fund includes the budget $607.5 million USAID's designated family planning and reproductive health programs.
The freeze has already affected family planning resources used by thousands of people overseas, causing numerous clinics shutdown Bangling supply chain for contraception.
1 analysis The Guttmacher Institute, a research group on abortion rights, determined that a few weeks of freezing rejected family planning care.912,000 Women and girls from dozens of countries using foreign aid in the US.
That same analysis at least predicts that 8,340 pregnant women If it continues until April, as the Trump administration intended, it will die from the freeze.
Zambia is one of the countries that receives massive amounts of US aid, with a significant portion assigned to family planning services. In 2023, most African countries in southern Africa received it 600 million dollars With US aid, According to a collapse of federal data from the Guttmacher Institute, $10 million shared with the hill, is heading towards family planning.
During freeze, piles of contraceptive devices like condoms are not open warehouse, It is causing shortages in clinics around the country, according to Rachel Moynihan, advocacy and communications specialist for the United Nations Population Fund.
“This really is the whole system,” says Rachel Clement, senior director of U.S. government affairs at Population Action International, a reproductive rights group.
“And it has the micro-curve effect of people trying to make these tough decisions in a financial environment where there is no alternative.”
The Zambian government has significantly increased its commitment to providing a supply of family planning to address shortages caused by the freeze. But many countries simply don't have resources Replace Help them receive from the US
“There is no other global donor that can intervene at the level where the US government is funding these things,” Clement said.
