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Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa. No disease is deadlier on the continent, especially for children. But the Trump administration's decision to terminate 90% of USAID's foreign aid contracts has local health officials warning of catastrophe in some of the world's poorest communities. Uganda in 2023 had 12.6 million malaria cases and nearly 16,000 deaths, many of them children under 5 and pregnant women. Some of the USAID funding in Uganda paid for mosquito-spraying operations in remote areas. Malaria accounts for 30% to 50% of outpatient visits to health facilities across the country. The President’s Malaria Initiative has supported Nigeria’s malaria response. In Congo, U.S government funding has contributed about $650 million towards malaria control since 2010. There are already difficult efforts to identify and track disease outbreaks across Congo.

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