Cuts in US nutrition aid must be restored, or tens of thousands of children will die

While it is impossible to verify exactly how much nutrition funding has been affected by recent shifts in U.S. aid policy, nutrition experts from Sudan to Yemen to Nigeria have reported the suspension or closure of lifesaving nutrition activities. The cuts have also left medical treatments such as ready-to-use therapeutic food stuck in warehouses and created uncertainty around how to deliver it. In countries across the world—particularly in the Sahel region of Africa—we are now staring down this year’s hunger gap. We are terrified that without USAID support, tens of thousands of children will not survive this precarious time when food is scarce and people’s immune systems are weakened.