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The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.<\/p>\n

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An obscure but influential program that gave detailed public health information to about half of the world\u2019s nations will fold as a result of the Trump administration\u2019s freeze on foreign aid.<\/p>\n

With funding from the United States Agency for International Development, the Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of information in many countries about maternal and child health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and H.I.V. infections, among many other health indicators.<\/p>\n

The surveys collected data in 90 low- and middle-income nations, which then used the information to set health benchmarks at the local, national and global levels, including the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by member countries of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the program\u2019s administrators learned that it was being \u201cterminated for the convenience of the U.S. Government,\u201d effective immediately, according to an email viewed by The New York Times. They were ordered to \u201cstop all work, terminate subcontracts and place no further orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump administration is dismantling U.S.A.I.D.; thousands of layoffs are expected in the coming days. Without future surveys, it will be nearly impossible to measure the impact of the those foreign aid cuts on citizens in nations without substantial health infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Some global health experts reacted to the program\u2019s demise with dismay.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really challenging for me to understand how you could implement thoughtful programs in public health and monitor progress toward strategic goals if you don\u2019t have the kind of data that are available from the D.H.S.,\u201d Win Brown, a demographer at the University of Washington, said.<\/p>\n

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The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.An obscure but influential program that gave detailed public health information to about half of the world\u2019s nations will fold as a result of the Trump administration\u2019s freeze on foreign aid.With funding from the United States Agency for International Development, the Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of information in many countries about maternal and child health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and H.I.V. infections, among many other health indicators.The surveys collected data in 90 low- and middle-income nations, which then used the information to set health benchmarks at the local, national and global levels, including the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by member countries of the United Nations.On Tuesday, the program\u2019s administrators learned that it was being \u201cterminated for the convenience of the U.S. Government,\u201d effective immediately, according to an email viewed by The New York Times. They were ordered to \u201cstop all work, terminate subcontracts and place no further orders.\u201dThe Trump administration is dismantling U.S.A.I.D.; thousands of layoffs are expected in the coming days. Without future surveys, it will be nearly impossible to measure the impact of the those foreign aid cuts on citizens in nations without substantial health infrastructure.Some global health experts reacted to the program\u2019s demise with dismay.\u201cIt\u2019s really challenging for me to understand how you could implement thoughtful programs in public health and monitor progress toward strategic goals if you don\u2019t have the kind of data that are available from the D.H.S.,\u201d Win Brown, a demographer at the University of Washington, said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22883,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22884,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22881\/revisions\/22884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}