Funding Terminated for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Starting Wednesday afternoon, a wave of emails went out from the State Department in Washington around the world, landing in inboxes for refugee camps, tuberculosis clinics, polio vaccination projects and thousands of other organizations that received crucial funding for lifesaving work.

Many were projects that had received a waiver from the freeze because the State Department previously identified its work as essential and lifesaving. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

The projects terminated include H.I.V. treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst-affected African countries and global efforts to wipe out polio.

Here are some of the projects that The New York Times has confirmed have been canceled:

• A $131 million grant to UNICEF’s polio immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children.

• A $90 million contract for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would have protected 53 million people.

• All of the operating costs and 10 percent of the drug budget of the Global Drug Facility, the World Health Organization’s main supply channel for tuberculosis medications, which last year provided tuberculosis treatment to nearly three million people, including 300,000 children.

• H.I.V. care and treatment projects that were providing lifesaving medication to 350,000 people, including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women who were receiving care so that they would not transmit the virus to their babies at birth.

• A contract to manage and distribute $34 million worth of medical supplies in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthlong H.I.V. treatments, 750,000 H.I.V. tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 antimalaria bed nets.

• Eighty-seven shelters that took care of 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa.

• A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that operates the only source of water for 250,000 people.

• Pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal.

• A project run by Helen Keller International in six countries in West Africa that last year provided more than 35 million people with the medicine to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases.

• A project in Nigeria providing 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with treatment for severe and acute malnutrition, putting 60,000 children under the age of 5 at immediate risk of death.

• A project that runs the only operational health clinics in one of the biggest areas of Sudan region, cutting off all health services.

• A project serving more than 144,000 people in Bangladesh that provided food for malnourished pregnant women and vitamin A to children.

• A program run which protected more than 20 million people from Malaria. It provided malaria drugs to children at the start of the rainy season in 10 countries in Africa.

• A project that provided drugs and other medical supplies, health care, treatment of malnutrition programming, and water and sanitation for 115,000 displaced or affected by the conflict in northern Ethiopia.

• A project providing H.I.V. and tuberculosis treatment to 46,000 people in Uganda.

• Smart4TB, the main research consortium working on prevention, diagnostics and treatment for tuberculosis.

• A data collection project in 90 countries that were crucial and sometimes the only sources of information on maternal and child health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and H.I.V. infections, among many other health indicators. The project was also the bedrock of budgets and planning.