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BBCWhen Kajol contracted in Tuberculosis in January, he continued to USAID. Now he and his family are at risk after The Trump administration ordered most assistance in the US end.
TB can be fatal when left unspecified. The more infectious bacteria disease, which usually proves the lungs, is not widespread in rich countries, because treatment is relatively cheap. But in Bangladesh, it was a plague.
That is especially in neighborhoods like Mohammadpur, a slum in the capital Dhaka where Kajol, 17, is alive.
“We are poor,” he said. He was the only bread for himself, his mother and a little brother. Her job in a garment factory keeps all after.
So if he is sick in January, it can be dangerous.
However, help comes to the Dipa Halder. Over the past three years, he survived the Mohammadpur residents about TB and taking people in treatment they needed so much, no cost.
The initiative, which has taken people tried and obtained this treatment they need including proper nutrition, operated by a local assistance organization, nari maitree. The US agency is funded for international assistance (USAID) to February, if it receives a letter from the US Government says that funds end.
Carrying Kajol’s treatment, about just finished, at a sudden end.
Cutting medications in the middle of the treatment makes TB moments to be the greater. It is harder to prevent the disease and put patients more dangerous to severe illness and death.
The government provides free medicine but seeing and collecting drugs can be unstoppable for most.
“Now I have to go to take the medicine myself,” he said. “I have a lot of struggling.”
“People here are easy,” said Dipa, 21. “I can tell them to go to a particular doctor, who helps them save some money.
“Or I try to give them some financial aid from our organization so that it can continue their treatment.”
According to a US government report seen on BBC, USAID support in 2023 directly resulted in identification and reporting more than one million TB cases in Bangladesh. In the same year, there are 296,487 new or reconciliation in TB cases fixed or successfully completed as a result of USAID.
The agency was found integral to the country fight against tuberculosis.
“You ask people on the street, they will say yeah, it’s the us, they are the ones that are keeping it (tuberculosis) in control,” Said a director of a usaid project in Bangladesh, who is not authorized to speak publicly and did not want to be named.
“Bangladesh is the largest USAID program in Asia,” as the Asif Salem, Executive Director of the Non-Profra Brac Organization. “In terms of its impact, especially in health care sector, it is much.
“Especially at vaccination, reduced child mortality and mother-in-law, USAID has a large role in this country.”
In 2024, Bangladesh received $ 500m with foreign assistance. This year, that value has a cratered at $ 71m. To set that contextual number, in three years period from 2021-2023, USAID has committed average $ 83m per year in Bangladesh for health initiatives for health initiatives for health initiatives for health initiatives for health initiatives for health initiatives.
The cuts of USAID mean by Nari Maitree no longer provides its stop tb program, but it also means Dipna. He supported his old parents and his younger sister.
“I now break my job. I carry the family burden. The unemployed is a scary situation,” he told the BBC.
In a document seen by the BBC, 113 programs funded directly to USAID Office in Bangladesh stopped. The list does not include many programs funded directly to US Washington agencies.
“The NGO sector (in Bangladesh) uses 500,000 people at least,” says Mr. Thanks. “It’s great. Thousands and thousands of jobs will be omitted.”
Not only the United States who has driven away from foreign aid. The UK announced cuts of foreign aid programs, as with Switzerland. It is possible that other countries can follow the suit.
This is a splendid truth for Bangladesh. The Government of the country has fallen last year and the economy is Shaky, with inflation near 10% and a work crisis, especially for young people.
Interim Leader Muhammad Yunus says Bangladesh comes in a new way of how to save on following help – but not saying how.
If forced by an interview with the BBC how to deal with the Word of Adaid, Yunus said: “It’s a big part. It doesn’t mean Bangladesh disappear from the map.”
Asif thanks Thanks the way the cuts of sudden and riot. The impact of a country like Bangladesh cannot be changed.
Either more clear than the Bazar of the Cox, a city on the southeastern Bangladesh, at home in the world’s largest refugee camp. Over a million Rohingya, a persecuted Minime community called the United Nations the victims of ethnic cleaning, weakening holes in the land, neighboring myanmar.
Can’t get home and can’t work outside the refugee camp, Rohingya depends on international help for their safety.
The United States contributes to about half of all the help of Rohingya refugees.
“We have lost soap,” says Rana Bugiran, representative of the country for the UN Venency Agency Agencyf. “We’re now on the water truck in the camps. It’s a perfect critical time. There is a cholera blow with over 580 cases, with a scabies in the flow.”
Water sanitation projects in camps used to use USAID.
Since the order to stop working begins at the end of January, hospitals at the Bazar’s International Red Cross in the Cox is low. Any hopes that money again will crush this week, if the Trump administration is more than 80% of all USAID programs.
Patients such as Hamida Begum, regular treatment for hypertension, remaining with some options.
“I’m old and I don’t have anyone to help me,” he said. Her husband died last year, leaving her to take care of her four children alone, including her 12-year-old daughter who can’t walk.
“I can’t go to another hospital away from home because of my daughter.”
At a nearby UN Food Distribution Center, Reshana begum stands next to two large sacks.
Inside, he said, six liters of cooking oil and 13kg rice, with basics such as onions, garlic and dry chili. These rations, given him to the World Food Program (WFP), he must last and his family are one month.
I asked how he would now handle his rations to be cut down in the middle of the month.
She looked beautiful. Then he began to cry.
“How can we live with a small amount?” Asked Rehana, 47, who shares a room with her husband and five children. “Even today, it’s hard to handle.”
WFP says it is forced to make enthusiastic cuts due to “a critical fund loss for emergency operations to answer it.
The rations today allotted to Rohinghye community meet their primary daily diet needs, no matter those fears they leave and not more.
“It is a perfect danger of doing,” Rana flower said to UNICEF. “Failed people within camps lead to security concerns. If degree will increase it can, we cannot go to camps to help.”
