US EditionUS to Burn $9.7 Million Worth of USAID-Purchased Contraceptives Rather than Deliver Them to Women Overseas | News Channel 3-12
GEEL, BELGIUM, JUL 29 – The destruction follows cuts to USAID foreign aid programs and could worsen contraceptive shortages, with studies linking funding cuts to over 14 million additional deaths by 2030.
- The Trump administration will incinerate $9.7 million of USAID contraceptives stored in Geel, Belgium, at a cost of $167,000, instead of distributing them overseas.
- Amid the Mexico City policy, the State Department highlighted the destruction of abortifacient commodities from terminated Biden-era USAID contracts, led by DOGE.
- According to a congressional aide, they must double-incinerate products, including copper IUDs, rod implants, and injectable contraceptives, at a private medical-waste facility in France.
- Shaheen said, `'At a moment when the Trump administration has made devastating cuts to foreign assistance it is disappointing that the State Department would sign off on spending money to actually destroy paid-for commodities that would save lives and are waiting to be deployed.'
- Amid looming shortages, MSI Reproductive Choices said its offer to fund shipping of USAID-branded supplies was declined, while The Lancet projected over 14 million additional deaths by 2030 from aid cuts.
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By Lauren Kent, CNN The Trump administration is poised to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than give them to women abroad. This follows the dismantling of foreign assistance programs run by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The “preliminary decision” to destroy the USAID-purchased contraceptives was confirmed by a State Department spokesperson, who said the cost of incinerating them would be $…
US to burn $9.7 million worth of USAID-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas | News Channel 3-12
By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carried out by the US Agency for International Development, or USAID. The “preliminary decision” to destroy the USAID–procured birth control was confirmed by a State Department spokesperson, who said the cost of incinerating th…
U.S. to burn $9.7 million worth of USAID-purchased contraceptives
The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of U.S.-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carried out by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.
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