alt Hacker NewsNY Times has done no reporting substantiating the claim the hundreds of thousands have died. They have published an OpEd piece and have reported a memo by a USAID employee how was upset about being fired. It is all models and unsubstantiated claims.
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derektank • yesterday at 5:54 PM
We know from the state department’s own survey data that 77k fewer children alone were receiving HIV treatment in 2025 compared to 2024.
https://programme.aids2026.org/Abstract/Abstract/?abstractid...
metalliqaz • yesterday at 5:35 PM
"I have seen no substantiated claims that people die without access to food and medicine."
I guess someone should look into that
felixgallo • yesterday at 5:37 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts....
this seems to have a lot of pretty concrete data. Which do you disagree with in particular?
> NY Times has done no reporting substantiating the claim the hundreds of thousands have died.
NYT has no such reporting because it was reporting from ProPublica. In a series of (Pulitzer-prize finalist) articles they estimated about 700,000:
* https://www.propublica.org/series/the-end-of-aid
* https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/brett-murphy-and-anna-mar...
An analysis in The Lancet estimates that by 2030 as many as 14 million people could die, including 4.5 million children under age 5:
* https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
A recent article in Science found that after aid was shutdown there was an increase in violence in various regions where it was previously present:
* https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeh7122