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Aid cuts caused rise in child deaths – Gates
Saturday Star
|December 06, 2025
MICROSOFT co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said on Thursday it was “tragic” that child deaths would increase worldwide for the first time this century because wealthy Western countries have slashed international aid.
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The US has cut the deepest, with Gates saying fellow billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was “responsible for a lot of deaths”.
However Britain, France and Germany had also “disproportionately” slashed aid, said Gates, a major funder of numerous global health programmes.
The cuts mean that the number of children dying before their fifth birthday is projected to increase to 4.8 million this year, up 200,000 since 2024, according to the Gates Foundation’s annual Goalkeepers report released Thursday.
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