UK aid cuts likely to cause thousands of needless deaths: UN ...Qatar

Millions of people risk death and disability as Britain shuts down a major aid programme targeting neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. Britain’s £4bn ($5.6bn) aid budget cuts include an exit from its health programme Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND), which was due to run until March 2022. “ASCEND provided crucial funding to national NTD control, elimination and eradication programmes in 19 countries,” the WHO said in a letter to British lawmakers as part of an enquiry into the future of British aid. “No obvious alternative source of funding exists to fill the funding gaps that will be left

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