“Counting Deaths Save Lives”: Africa Calls for Control of Health Data After Usaid’s Closure · Global Voices

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When the United States cut funding for its global health care after the closure of USAID, its cooperation agency earlier this year, and the world’s largest donor, millions of death records and clinical data disappeared almost overnight in several African countries, erasing thousands of people from the statistical map. “I called ministers who told me, ‘We don’t have access to our own data,’ Dr. Jean Kaseya, director of the African Center for Dise…