Child Deaths Will Rise This Year

“One of the greatest public-health achievements of recent decades has been driving down child mortality around the world. Now, that long-running decline is reversing,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Driving the shift is a 27% decline in global health aid from donors in wealthy countries, including the U.S. and some European governments… The reductions include the Trump administration’s cutting and reorganizing of the U.S. Agency for International Development.”