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Estimating the human toll of decisions made by the current U.S. administration. For questions, reach out to @brookeenichols.bsky.social

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The best metric of Elon's time in Washington. @impactcounter.bsky.social
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Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases @buceid.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Many of the health systems that might have collected mortality data in LMICs were funded by the same US programs that got cut, explains @brookeenichols.bsky.social (@busph.bsky.social). Platforms like her @impactcounter.bsky.social help fill these data gaps. @npr.org spr.ly/63327NNIEd
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Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees
Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say there are many thousands of cases like his.
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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Estimated deaths caused by Funding Discontinuation in the U.S. (until now) 90.377 Adult Deaths 188.584 Child Deaths Deaths Per Hour 103 1/2
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Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases @buceid.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
According to CEID-funded @impactcounter.bsky.social, roughly one person dies from HIV every three minutes following US foreign aid cuts. Read more in @nature.com: spr.ly/633242aTXs
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Trump blew up the global fight against AIDS. Can it recover?
Nature - An ambitious plan to stop the global threat of AIDS has been derailed. But many are hopeful that progress can be salvaged.
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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"The attacks on #HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress" via @theatlantic.com
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Trump’s Revenge on Public Health
The attacks on HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress.
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date. More than 180,000 and counting. #FundingCutsCostLives impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com #tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com #HIV #FundingCutsCostLives #USAID
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Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases @buceid.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
On BU Giving Day, this Wednesday, please consider making a gift of any amount to CEID. Your support helps fund our work such as @impactcounter.bsky.social developed by @brookeenichols.bsky.social to quantify lives lost due to cuts to PEPFAR. Donate directly to CEID at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date. More than 150,000 and counting. #FundingCutsCostLives impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com #tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com #HIV #FundingCutsCostLives #USAID
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the combined human toll of all funding discontinuation to date. #FundingCutsCostLives impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com #HIV #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com #tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
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Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases @buceid.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Her calculations estimate that hundreds of thousands of lives will be lost to infectious diseases like malaria, TB, & HIV due to cuts to USAID, PEPFAR, & Medicaid. View real-time updates at her @impactcounter.bsky.social www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
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Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases @buceid.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
CEID faculty Dr. Brooke Nichols (@busph.bsky.social) developed @impactcounter.bsky.social to serve as a tool to quantify, both for government officials and general public, the toll that cuts to foreign aid will have on real lives. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date. #FundingCutsCostLives impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com #tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com #HIV #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date. #FundingCutsCostLives impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com #tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com #HIV #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The annual lives at stake if cuts to #Medicaid are enacted: Medicaid.impactcounter.com
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com #HIV #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com #tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com #tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If the cuts to Medicaid pass the Senate and are enacted: One American will die every 18.3 minutes and one additional American will face catastrophic healthcare costs every 42 seconds as a consequence. Medicaid.impact.com #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com #HIV #FundingCutsCostLives
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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🌍 "Our global anti-AIDS program has saved millions of lives — improve it, don’t kill it" 📰 Check out Past IAS President Chris Beyrer's new op-ed in @thehill.com and join the call to #SavePEPFAR!
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com #HIV #CROI2025 #FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com #tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostsLives
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com @hivpxresearch.bsky.social
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today's human toll of HIV funding discontinuation. Hold the administration to account. PEPFAR.impactcounter.com @iasociety.bsky.social @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy
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Impact Counter @impactcounter.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today's human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation. Hold the administration to account. Tb.impactcounter.com @stoptbusa.bsky.social @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy
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