- U.S. cuts that effectively dissolved USAID have forced nutrition, birthing-center and outreach programs in Nepal to close, and health workers say maternal and newborn deaths have risen.
- Programs that once supplied food and supplements, trained midwives and made home visits (reaching about 100,000 women) were canceled, leaving clinics short of staff, medicine and trust.
- The human cost is visible in villages — newborns and mothers dying again after programs ended (one villager’s death from eclampsia is highlighted) — and the true toll may be larger because data collectors lost jobs.
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